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Collecting as Self-Exploration in Late 19th-Century French Literature

Ellicson, Kirsten B.2012

… texts from the 1880s by J.-K. Huysmans and Pierre Loti, who, more than any other writers at the end of the 19th century, depict collecting as an earnest activity of self-exploration. The specific collections involved are Huysmans' protagonist's whimsically decorated house outside of Paris, …

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