The family in crisis in late nineteenth-century French fiction

The family in crisis in late nineteenth-century French fiction / Nicholas White.

Nicholas White examines how novels represent the crisis in 'family values' in late nineteenth-century France. A wide cultural perspective informs close readings of tales of adultery, illegitimacy, incest and divorce by popular novelists such as Zola and Maupassant as well as by hitherto ne...

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Main Author: White, Nicholas, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Series:Cambridge studies in French ; 57.
Subjects:
1800-1899
French fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Families in literature.
Adultery in literature.
Adultery in literature
Families in literature
French fiction
Gezin.
Romans.
Frans.
Bellettrie.
Frankrijk.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: fin de siècle, fin de famille?; Chapter 1 Demon lover or erotic atheist?; Chapter 2 The rhythms of performance; Chapter 3 Bel-Ami: fantasies of seduction and colonization; Chapter 4 Incest in Les Rougon-Macquart; Chapter 5 The conquest of privacy in A Rebours; Chapter 6 Painting, politics and architecture; Coda: Bourget's Un divorce and the 'honnête femme'; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Cambridge Studies in French

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