The Living Death of Modernity

Balzac, Baudelaire, Zola

By:

Dorothy Kelly

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Hardback

Series:

Research Monographs in French Studies

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Living-dead characters appear surprisingly often in the realist works of Balzac and Zola, and in the modern poetry of Baudelaire. In this era of industrialization and modernization, images of the living dead disrupt this state of the new and make visible the impossibility of erasing the past. A skeleton that communicates with a character during a shopping trip, a body taken over by a past ancestor, a ghost that haunts through the floorboards, or a more symbolic dead heart - living death takes many shapes. In readings of these authors, Dorothy Kelly, who has written extensively on the literature of this period, charts the various ways that this image permeates certain works of these three authors and the meanings that it generates.

Author Biography:

Dorothy Kelly is Professor of French at Boston University.

Release date Australia

July 19th, 2021

Author

Dorothy Kelly

Series

Research Monographs in French Studies

Pages

184

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

170x244x13

ISBN-13

9781781886502

Product ID

35205767

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