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Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities - Cambridge Studies in French Watson, Janell (University of Richmond, Virginia)
Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities - Cambridge Studies in French
Watson, Janell (University of Richmond, Virginia)
Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn made a great impact on literary texts. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture.
242 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 13, 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521661560 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 242 |
| Dimensions | 161 × 235 × 22 mm · 510 g |
| Language | English |