THE COLLECTOR IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE by Emma Bielecki ( 9783035302073 )

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THE COLLECTOR IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE
REPRESENTATION, IDENTITY, KNOWLEDGE

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ISBN 10:

3035302073

ISBN 13:

9783035302073

Publisher:

PETER LANG AG, INTERNATIONALER VERLAG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN

Pub. date:

15 November, 2011

Edition:

250th ed.

Series:

French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 32

Description:

From the sketch-writing of 1830s to late nineteenth-century decadent fictions of Jean Lorrain, from Balzac's "Cousin Pons" to Proust's Charles Swann, the literature of period abounds in examples of men afflicted with what Larousse Grand Dictionnaire called in 1869 'la collectionnomanie'. This book examines these representations of the collector.

Synopsis:

The collector was one of the archetypal figures of the nineteenth-century French cultural imagination. During the July Monarchy (1830-48) a new culture of collecting emerged, which continued to develop over the course of the century and which attracted the attention of a wide range of social commentators and writers. From the sketch-writing of the 1830s to the late nineteenth-century decadent fictions of Jean Lorrain, from Balzac's "Cousin Pons" to Proust's Charles Swann, the literature of the period abounds in examples of men (and occasionally women) afflicted with what the Larousse Grand Dictionnaire called in 1869 'la collectionnomanie'. This book examines these representations of the collector. It shows that woven into them are fundamental anxieties generated by the experience of modernity, involving the nature of identity and selfhood, the relentless accumulation of commodities in a capitalist system of production and the (in)ability of language to translate experience accurately.

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Switzerland

Imprint:

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

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