Le Grand Transit Moderne : : mobility, modernity and French naturalist fiction / / Larry Duffy.
This book explores fictional responses to the changing transport and urban infrastructure of nineteenth-century France, arguing that networks of movement (and an accompanying 'culture of networks') which had become firmly established by the time of the Second Empire constitute a privileged...
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| Superior document: | Faux Titre ; 260 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Editions Rodopi,, 2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | French English |
| Series: | Faux titre ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Author's Note
- Introduction: 'Le Grand Transit Moderne'
- Chapter 1 A Complex Kind of Training : L'Éducation sentimentale, Modernity, and the Changing Phenomenology of Motion
- Chapter 2 An Evolutionary Naturalist Intertext: The Traffic Jam as Exemplary Taxonomic Motif
- Chapter 3 Haussmannization, Circulation and the Ideal City of Au Bonheur des Dames
- Chapter 4 Convulsions, Détraquement and the Circulus: Zola's Dehystericisation of Prostitution
- Chapter 5 Beyond the Pressure Principle: Bestialisation, Anthropomorphism and the 'Thermodynamic' Death Instinct in Naturalist Fiction
- Chapter 6 Maupassant, Doxa and the Banalisation of Modern Travel
- Conclusion: 'Ce Parasite Supplémentaire'
- Bibliography
- Index.