The Family In Crisis In Late Nineteenth-century French Fiction

by Nicholas White

2020-12-29 08:47:21

The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction examines how novels represent the problems of family life at a key moment in modern social history. Nicholas White provides close readings of texts by popular novelists such as Zola and M... Read more
The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction examines how novels represent the problems of family life at a key moment in modern social history. Nicholas White provides close readings of texts by popular novelists such as Zola and Maupassant as well as by hitherto neglected figures including Huysmans, Bourget and Armand Charpentier. His analysis, informed by a wider cultural perspective, shows how tales of adultery, illegitimacy, incest and divorce exemplify and interrogate the crisis in "family values" of late nineteenth-century France. Less

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File size9.02 X 5.98 X 0.67 in
Print pages232
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date January 13, 1999
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521562744

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