Balzac, Literary Sociologist

by Allan H Pasco and Allan H. Pasco

Book Overview

Melding the fields of literature, sociology, and history, this book develops analyses of the ten novels in Balzac's Sc?nes de la vie de province. Following the order of the novels projected in La Com?die humaine, Allan H. Pasco investigates how Balzac used art as a tool of social inquiry to obtain startlingly accurate insights into the relationships that defined his turbulent society. His repeated claim to be an "historian of manners"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319818686
• ISBN13: 9783319818689
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"