The family in crisis in late nineteenth-century French fiction /
Nicholas White
- 214 pages
"The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction 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, Huysmans, 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 hitherto overlooked texts from fin-de-siecle France."--BOOK JACKET.
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French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Family in literature Adultery in literature History and criticism French fiction French fiction, history and criticism Families in literature