Trauma and its representations : the social life of mimesis in post-revolutionary France / Deborah Jenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenson, Deborah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--19th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Mimesis in literature.

Mimesis (The Greek word).

Physical Description:

x, 294 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Summary:

The author argues that mimesis not only denotes the representation of reality, but is also a crucial concept for understanding the production of social meaning within specific historical concepts.

Contents:

Introduction : on social speculation

Iconoclasm : setting wounds in stone at the Musée des monuments français, 1795-1816

Transpositionality : the political gets personal in Constant's Cécile

Plagiarism : Duras, Desbordes-Valmore, and the scandalous potency of the woman author

Harmony : Lamartine's social pain

Analogy : slavery to duplicity in Sand's Indiana

Fetishism : thinking with things in Flaubert's "Un coeur simple"

Epilogue : French romanticism: posttraumatic Utopia/post-Utopian trauma.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-279) and index.

ISBN:

0801867231

OCLC:

45493343