Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature

by Kevin McLaughlin and Kevin McLaughlin

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Proposing a new interpretation of literature and mass culture in nineteenth-century Europe, this work focuses on works by Marx, Balzac, Dickens, Adorno, and Benjamin to explore in them a complex "mimetic" disposition toward commodification in the realm of culture. The aim of the book is twofold: to explicate in the work of Balzac and Dickens subtle and profoundly ambivalent attitudes toward the rapidly expanding mass culture of the 1830's in France...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0804724113

ISBN13:9780804724111

Release Date:January 1995

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:188 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) World Literature

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