Name: The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction By Nicholas White (Royal Holloway, University of London)
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The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction by Nicholas White (Royal Holloway, University of London)

The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction, first published in 1999, focuses on a key moment in the construction of the modern view of the family in France. Nicholas White's analysis of novels by Zola, Maupassant, Hennique, Bourget and Armand Charpentier is fashioned by perspectives on a wide cultural field, including legal, popular and academic discourses on the family and its discontents. His account encourages a close rereading of canonical as well as overlooked texts from fin de siecle France. What emerges between the death of Flaubert in 1880 and the publication of Bourget's Un divorce in 1904 is a series of Naturalist and post-Naturalist representations of transgressive behaviour in which tales of adultery, illegitimacy, consanguinity, incest and divorce serve to exemplify and to offer a range of nuances on the Third Republic's crisis in what might now be termed 'family values'.

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' much rhetorical brilliance the book demonstrates an impressive level of critical sophistication, skilfully anatomizing, for example, the parodic elements inherent in novels of adultery which rework the cycle of duplicity and disillusion.' The Times Literary Supplement

Acknowledgements; Introduction: fin de siecle, fin de famille?; Part I. The Promiscuous Narrative of 'Pot-Bouille': 1. Demon lover or erotic atheist?; 2. The rhythms of performance; Part II. Pleasures and Fears of Paternity: Maupassant and Zola: 3. Bel-Ami: fantasies of seduction and colonization; 4. Incest in Les Rougon-Macquart; Part III. The Blindness of Passions: Huysmans, Hennique and Zola: 5. The conquest of privacy in A Rebours; 6. Painting, politics and architecture; Coda: Bourget's Un Divorce and the 'honnete femme'; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Title

The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction by Nicholas White (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Author

Nicholas White (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Series

Cambridge Studies in French

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Hardback

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year published

1999-01-13

Number of pages

232

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The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction Nicholas White (Royal Holloway, University of London)

The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction by Nicholas White (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction by Nicholas White (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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