| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Webs : genealogies, roads, streets (Balzac) -- Intersections : relays, stagecoaches, walks (Balzac bis) -- Performances : horses, optical telegraphs (Stendhal) -- Velocities : precision, overload (Dumas) -- Conclusion: speed kills (Zola) |
| Summary |
In "Real Time" David F. Bell explores the decisive impact the accelerated movement of people and information had on the fictions of four giants of French realism--Balzac, Stendhal, Dumas, and Zola. Nineteenth-century technological advances radically altered the infrastructure of France, changing the ways ordinary citizens--and literary characters--viewed time, space, distance, and speed. The most influential of these advances included the improvement of the stagecoach, the growth of road and canal networks leading to the advent of the railway, and the increasing use of mail, and of the optical telegraph. Citing examples from a wide range of novels and stories, Bell demonstrates the numerous ways in which these trends of acceleration became not just literary devices and themes but also structuring principles of the novels themselves |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-154) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Stendhal, 1783-1842 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 fast |
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Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 fast |
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Stendhal, 1783-1842 fast |
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Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 fast |
| Subject |
French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Speed in literature.
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Communication in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Communication in literature
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French fiction
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Speed in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019718370 |
| ISBN |
9780252090479 |
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0252090470 |
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1283097443 |
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9781283097444 |
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9786613097446 |
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6613097446 |
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