The novel map [electronic resource] : space and subjectivity in nineteenth-century French fiction / Patrick M. Bray.
Material type: TextPublication details: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 271 p. :) illISBN:- 9780810166387
- 0810166380
- 843.709384 23
- PQ653 .B73 2013
Revised and expanded version of the author's dissertation--Harvard, 2005, under the title: Novel selves: mapping the subject in Stendhal, Nerval and Proust.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-261) and index.
Introduction: Here and there: the subject in space and text -- Part I. Stendhal's privilege -- Chapter 1. The life and death of Henry Brulard -- Chapter 2. The ghost in the map -- Part II. Nerval beyond narrative -- Chapter 3. Orientations: writing the self in Nerval's Voyage en orient -- Chapter 4. Unfolding Nerval -- Part III. Sand's utopian subjects -- Chapter 5. Drowning in the text: space and Indiana -- Chapter 6. Carte blanche: charting utopia in Sand's Nanon -- Part IV. Branching off: genealogy and map in the Rougon-Macquart -- Chapter 7. Zola and the contradictory origins of the novel -- Chapter 8. Mapping creative destruction in Zola -- Part V. Proust's double text -- Chapter 9. The law of the land -- Chapter 10. Creating a space for time -- Conclusion: Now and then: virtual spaces and real subjects in the twenty-first century.
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