Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities

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 phenomenon from Balzac, who introduced it to canonical literature, through Flaubert, Zola, Rachilde and Lorrain, to Proust. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture.

Author: Janell Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/30/2006
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780521025461

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