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BL
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977199
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b731569
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Watson, Janell.
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Literature and material culture from Balzac to Proust : : the collection and consumption of curiosities /\ Janell Watson.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, U.K. ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, 1999.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in French ;; 62
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1 online resource (x, 227 pages)
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| ISBN
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0511010044
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: 0511033516
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: 0521661560
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: 9780511010040
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: 9780511033513
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: 9780511118043
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: 9780511151019
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: 9780511485909
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: 9780521661560
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: 9786610162116
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052102546X
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9780521025461
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-224) and index.
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| Contents
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1. The Bibelot: a Nineteenth-Century Object -- 2. Logic(s) of Material Culture: Imitation, Accumulation, and Mobility -- 3. Fashionable Artistic Interior: Social (Re)encoding in the Domestic Sphere -- 4. Flaubert's 'Musées reçus': Bouvard and Pécuchet's Consumerist epistemology -- 5. Narrate, Describe, or Catalogue? the Novel and the Inventory form in Balzac, the Goncourts, and Huysmans -- 6. Parlour of Critical Theory: Reading Dwelling Space Across Disciplines -- 7. Rearranging the Oedipus: Fantastic and Decadent Floor-plans in Gautier, Maupassant, Lorrain, and Rachilde.
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| Abstract
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"This book addresses the issues of collecting, consuming, classifying, and describing the curiosities, antiques, and objets d'art that proliferated in French literary texts during the last decades of the nineteenth century. After Balzac made such issues significant in canonical literature, the Goncourt brothers, Huysmans, Mallarme and Maupassant celebrated their golden age. Flaubert and Zola scorned them. Rachilde and Lorrain perverted them. Proust commemorated their last moments of glory. Focusing on the bibelot (the modern French term for knick-knack, curiosity, or other collectible), 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."--Jacket.
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Art objects in literature.
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French literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Littérature française-- 19e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Objets d'art dans la littérature.
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Art et littérature.
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Art objects in literature.
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Collectionneurs et collections-- Dans la littérature.
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Französisch
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French literature.
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Kunstwerk
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- French.
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Literatur
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Littérature française-- 19e siècle-- Thèmes, motifs.
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Objets d'art-- Dans la littérature.
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Curiosa.
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Fictie.
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Frans.
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Französisch.
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| Dewey Classification
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840
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| LC Classification
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PQ283.W38 1999eb
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| NLM classification
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18.25bcl
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