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

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

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Description
  1. 325 p.; 22 cm.
Series statement
  1. Faux titre ; 260
Uniform title
  1. Faux titre ; no 260.
Subject
  1. City and town life in literature
  2. French fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  3. French literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  4. Motion in literature
  5. Transportation > France
  6. Transportation in literature
  7. Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 > Criticism and interpretation
Contents
  1. 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."
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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