Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities

by Janell Watson

Book Overview

Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521661560
• ISBN13: 9780521661560
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"