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Fictional Meals and Their Function in the French Novel, 1789-1848 / James W. Brown.
LIBRA PQ653 .B76 1984
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, James W. (James White), 1942-
- Series:
- University of Toronto romance series 0082-5336 ; 48.
- University of Toronto romance series. 0082-5336 ; 48
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- French fiction.
- French fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- Dinners and dining in literature.
- Food in literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 215, [3] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto, [1984]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Balzac / The Meal as Metonym and Index of Social and Economic Spheres
- 2. Sand / The Meal as Symbol of Ethical Distance Between the Classes: Gastro-alimentary Antitheses in the Novels of George Sand
- 3. Sue and Hugo / An Alimentary Portrait of the Ghetto: The Meal as a Signal for Reform
- 4. Flaubert / Aesthetic and Ideological Coalescence in the Alimentary Sign: Madame Bovary
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-[211]) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- ISBN:
- 0802056059
- OCLC:
- 10859859
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