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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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through innovative readings of museum catalogs, the writings of Benjamin Constant, the novels of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert, and other works, Jenson demonstrates how mimesis functions as a form of symbolic wounding in French Romanticism.
- Contents:
- Iconoclasm : setting wounds in stone at the Musee des monuments francais (1795-1816)
- Transpositionality : the political gets personal in Constant's Cecile
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-279) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-7617-6
- OCLC:
- 70755415
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