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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Nineteenth-Century French Literature"”.
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Specularity in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Art
<p>In the mid-to-late 1800s, French writers and artists resolved to shed their Romantic skins in favor of new self-conscious "husks"--to borrow Baudelaire's poetic term--that is to say: Naturalism, Realism, Impressionism and Symbolism. Some of the older reformers found themselves in an awkward, …
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Religious imagery in nineteenth-century French slavery narratives
… in fictional narratives of slavery by early nineteenth-century French writers. The authors studied are both canonical and non-canonical, male and female, and the integration of archival sources into my study constitutes a distinct methodological trait of the thesis. Close textual analysis of …
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Narrating Hospitality: Salons in French Fiction, 1789–1848
… or haut-bourgeois household – in early nineteenth- century French literature, particularly within feminist scholarship. It considers fictional discourse on the salon through Derrida’s theory of hospitality, and through feminist deconstructions of the figure of the hostess in Western …
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Parisian Social Studies: Positivism and the Novels of Balzac, Paul de Kock and Zola
… I argue that the movement of panoramic literature under the July Monarchy (1830-1848) and its influence on the nineteenth-century urban novel must be re-imagined in the context of the proto-sociological movement of positivism. Existing criticism on panoramic literature typically views …
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Anarchisms and the Short Story in Fin-de-Siècle France, 1871-1901
… the short story and anarchism at the end of the nineteenth century. In doing so it interrogates the tendency in existing scholarship on anarchism and literature during this period to rely on analogies between literature and the bomb. This is partly due to a lingering association of anarchism with …