The Living Death of Modernity: Balzac, Baudelaire, Zola

The Living Death of Modernity: Balzac, Baudelaire, Zola - Research Monographs in French Studies

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Publisher's Synopsis

"Living-dead characters appear surprisingly often in the realist works of Balzac and Zola, and in the modern poetry of Baudelaire. In this era of industrialization and modernization, images of the living dead disrupt this state of the new and make visible the impossibility of erasing the past. A skeleton that communicates with a character during a shopping trip, a body taken over by a past ancestor, a ghost that haunts through the floorboards, or a more symbolic dead heart -- living death takes many shapes. In readings of these authors, Dorothy Kelly, who has written extensively on the literature of this period, charts the various ways that this image permeates certain works of these three authors and the meanings that it generates." --

Book information

ISBN: 9781781886502
Publisher: Legenda, an imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association
Imprint: Legenda, an imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association
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Language: English
Number of pages: 172
Weight: 488g
Height: 177mm
Width: 252mm
Spine width: 18mm