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Author White, Nicholas, 1967-

Title The family in crisis in late nineteenth-century French fiction / Nicholas White
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 214 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in French ; 57
Cambridge studies in French ; 57.
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
Summary 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 neglected figures of the period
Notes Chapters 4-5, and the second half of ch. 6 were originally presented as part of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Cambridge, 1993)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index
Notes English
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Subject 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.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98021088
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