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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, 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.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust
• Subtitle: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities
• Author: Professor Janell Watson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 242
• EAN: 9780521661560
• ISBN: 0521661560
• ID: 02039640
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 470 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. January 2000

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