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UNINA9910455095203321 |
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Autore |
White Nicholas <1967-> |
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Titolo |
The family in crisis in late nineteenth-century French fiction / / Nicholas White [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999 |
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1-107-11321-0 |
0-511-00524-5 |
1-280-16164-7 |
0-511-11642-X |
0-511-15012-1 |
0-511-31002-1 |
0-511-48591-3 |
0-511-05353-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in French ; ; 57 |
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Soggetti |
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French fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Families in literature |
Adultery in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-211) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: fin de siecle, fin de famille? -- Pt. 1. The Promiscuous Narrative of 'Pot-Bouille' -- 1. Demon lover or erotic atheist? -- 2. The rhythms of performance -- Pt. 2. Pleasures and Fears of Paternity: Maupassant and Zola -- 3. Bel-Ami: fantasies of seduction and colonization -- 4. Incest in Les Rougon-Macquart -- Pt. 3. The Blindness of Passions: Huysmans, Hennique and Zola -- 5. The conquest of privacy in A Rebours -- 6. Painting, politics and architecture -- Coda: Bourget's Un divorce and the 'honnete femme'. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction, first published in 1999, focuses on a key moment in the construction of the modern view of the family in France. Nicholas White's analysis of novels by Zola, Maupassant, Hennique, Bourget and Armand Charpentier is fashioned by perspectives on a wide cultural field, including legal, |
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