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Le grand transit moderne : mobility, modernity and French naturalist fiction / Larry Duffy.

Title
Le grand transit moderne : mobility, modernity and French naturalist fiction / Larry Duffy.
Author
Duffy, Larry.
Publication
Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. : Rodopi, 2005.

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Description
325 p.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Faux titre ; 260
Uniform Title
Faux titre ; no 260.
Subject
  • City and town life in literature
  • French fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • French literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Motion in literature
  • Transportation > France
  • Transportation in literature
  • Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 > Criticism and interpretation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A complex kind of training : L'Éducation sentimentale, modernity, and the changing phenomenology of motion -- An evolutionary naturalist intertext : the traffic jam as exemplary taxonomic motif -- Haussmannization, circulation, and the ideal city of Au bonheur des dames -- Convulsions, détraquement, and the circulus : Zola's dehystericisation of prostitution -- Beyond the pressure principle : bestialisation, anthropomorphism and the "thermodynamic" death instinct in naturalist fiction -- Maupassant, Doxa, and the banalisation of modern travel -- "Ce parasite supplémentaire."
ISBN
9042018151
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library