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Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities (Cambridge Studies in French)
Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities - Cambridge Studies in French
Author: Janell Watson
Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn restructured the literary text according to the practical logic of daily life, calling into question established scholarly notions of order. She traces the p...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521025461
ISBN-10: 052102546X
Publication Date: 3/30/2006
Pages: 244
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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