| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 273 pages) |
| Contents |
Fetishism in theory: Marx, Freud, Baudrillard -- The epistemology of perversion: from pathology to pathography -- Cabinet secrets: peep shows, prostitution, and bric-a-bracomania in the fin-de-siecle interior -- Unmasking the masquerade: fetishism and femininity from the Goncourt Brothers to Joan Riviere -- Splitting hairs: female fetishism and postpartum sentimentality in Maupassant's fiction -- Mystical pathography: a case of maso-fetishism in the Goncourts' Madame Gervaisais -- Hysterical vision: the scopophilic garden from Monet to Mirbeau -- Master narratives/servant texts: representing the maid from Flaubert to Freud -- Stigma indelebile: Zola, Gide, and the deviant detail |
| Summary |
Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture, and in particular the theme of ""female fetishism"" in the context of the feminine culture of mourning, collecting, and dressing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-266) 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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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL pda |
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French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder in literature.
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Femininity in literature.
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Psychoanalysis and literature -- France
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Fetishism in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Women in literature.
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Subjects & Themes -- Women.
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Femininity in literature.
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Fetishism in literature.
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French fiction.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder in literature.
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Women in literature.
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Letterkunde.
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Frans.
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Fetisjisme.
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Psychoanalytische interpretatie.
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France.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1501722697 |
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9781501722691 |
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9781501727740 |
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1501727745 |
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1501722700 |
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9781501722707 |
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