Literature and material culture from Balzac to Proust : the collection and consumption of curiosities / Janell Watson.

"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,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Watson, Janell
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series:Cambridge studies in French ; 62.
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