附註:Chapters 4-5, and the second half of ch. 6 were originally presented as part of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Cambridge, 1993).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index.
Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: fin de siècle, fin de famille?; Chapter 1 Demon lover or erotic atheist?; Chapter 2 The rhythms of performance; Chapter 3 Bel-Ami: fantasies of seduction and colonization; Chapter 4 Incest in Les Rougon-Macquart; Chapter 5 The conquest of privacy in A Rebours; Chapter 6 Painting, politics and architecture; Coda: Bourget's Un divorce and the 'honnête femme'; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Cambridge Studies in French
摘要:Nicholas White examines how novels represent the crisis in 'family values' in late nineteenth-century France. A wide cultural perspective informs close readings of tales of adultery, illegitimacy, incest and divorce by popular novelists such as Zola and Maupassant as well as by hitherto neglected figures of the period.
