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The misfit of the family : Balzac and the social forms of sexuality / Michael Lucey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lucey, Michael, 1960-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Series Q.
- Series Q
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850--Political and social views.
- Balzac, Honoré de.
- Literature and society--France--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Sex in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines the portrayal of sexuality in Balzac and the psychoanalytic preoccupations of his critics.
- Contents:
- Introduction Balzac and Alternative Families
- Chapter 1. Legal Melancholy: Balzac's Eugenie Grandet and the Napoleonic Code
- Chapter 2. On Not Getting Married in a Balzac Novel
- Interlude. Balzac and Same-Sex Relations in the 1830s
- Chapter 3. Balzac's Queer Cousins and Their Friends
- Chapter 4. The Shadow Economy of Queer Social
- Capital: Lucien de Rubempre and Vautrin
- Epilogue Vautrin's Progeny
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612920899
- 9781282920897
- 1282920898
- 9780822385165
- 0822385163
- OCLC:
- 850218986
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