The Collector in NineteenthCentury French Literature: Representation, Identity, Knowledge (French Studies of the Eighteenth and,Used

The Collector in NineteenthCentury French Literature: Representation, Identity, Knowledge (French Studies of the Eighteenth and,Used

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Product Description The collector was one of the archetypal figures of the nineteenthcentury French cultural imagination. During the July Monarchy (183048) 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 sketchwriting of the 1830s to the late nineteenthcentury decadent fictions of Jean Lorrain, from Balzacs Cousin Pons to Prousts Charles Swann, the literature of the period abounds in examples of men (and occasionally women) afflicted with what the LarousseGrand 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. About the Author Emma Bielecki teaches modern French literature at the University of Oxford. She holds an MA in French Studies and an MA in European History from University College London and was awarded her PhD by Kings College London for a thesis on representations of the collector in French literature from Balzac to Proust.

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