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Author Lucey, Michael, 1960- author.

Title The misfit of the family : Balzac and the social forms of sexuality / Michael Lucey
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 308 pages)
Series Series Q
Series Q.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Introduction Balzac and Alternative Families -- Chapter 1. Legal Melancholy: Balzac's Eugénie Grandet and the Napoleonic Code -- Chapter 2. On Not Getting Married in a Balzac Novel -- Interlude. Balzac and Same-Sex Relations in the 1830s -- Chapter 3. Balzac's Queer Cousins and Their Friends -- Chapter 4. The Shadow Economy of Queer Social -- Capital: Lucien de Rubempré and Vautrin -- Epilogue Vautrin's Progeny
Summary Examines the portrayal of sexuality in Balzac and the psychoanalytic preoccupations of his critics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-301) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 fast
Subject Literature and society -- France -- History -- 19th century
Sex in literature.
FICTION -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Literature and society
Political and social views
Sex in literature
Seksualiteit.
France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822385165
0822385163
082233156X
9780822331568