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Preserving the Provinces: French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, cartea 28

Autor Andrew Watts
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 noi 2007
Though famed for his vivid depictions of nineteenth-century Paris, Honore de Balzac devoted as much of his creative energy to the provinces. This book examines the way in which he combined a theatrical tradition of anti-provincial satire with a more open celebration of French provincial life in the post-Revolutionary period. Ranging widely over texts from both within and outside "La Comedie humaine," the author analyses Balzac's determination to invest the Rousseauist nostalgia for country over city with an updated rationale. A champion of central authority and absolutist government, Balzac is seen here in an unfamiliar role as the guardian of regional culture, a novelist who sought to record the diversity of France's small towns and villages before they were lost to industrialization and the railway age. Equally, the study reveals new aspects of his political engagement with questions impacting upon the provinces during the Restoration and July Monarchy, from broad issues such as agriculture and landownership, to more isolated grievances such as the implications of the 1827 Forest Code. The whole offers a fresh insight into Balzac's thought and literary aesthetic, and an assessment of his hitherto-neglected role in supporting the emergence of the regionalist novel, or "roman du terroir," in the second half of the nineteenth century."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783039105830
ISBN-10: 3039105833
Pagini: 337
Dimensiuni: 146 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Seria French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries


Notă biografică

The Author: Andrew Watts studied Modern Languages (French and Spanish) at the University of Bristol, graduating in 1999. He returned to Bristol the following year to begin work on his doctoral thesis. Since completing his postgraduate studies in 2004, he has taught French language and literature at Newcastle University and, since 2007, at the University of Birmingham.

Cuprins

Contents: Honoré de Balzac: Provincial Novelist ¿ Provincial Identities ¿ Touraine in Balzac¿s Work ¿ Experiences of Provincial Life ¿ Parisian Parallels ¿ New Provinces.