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

Ellicson, Kirsten B.2012

… was developed in French literature at the end of the 19th century. I consider how collecting investigates the self, exercises the powers of the mind, inquires into the individual's relationship to society and to texts. The study takes, as its point of departure, comments about the cultural …

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