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

Watson, Janell

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Título:
Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities
Autor: Watson, Janell
Assuntos: 19th century ; Art objects in literature ; French literature ; History and criticism
Descrição: 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, Mallarmé 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. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture.
Títulos relacionados: Cambridge studies in French
Editor: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Data de criação/publicação: 2000
Formato: 242
Idioma: Inglês

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