This book addresses the issues of collecting, consuming,
classifying and describing the curiosities, antiques and objets
d'art that proliferated in French literary texts during the last
decades of the nineteenth century. After Balzac made such issues
significant in canonical literature, the Goncourt brothers,
Huysmans, Mallarme and Maupassant celebrated their golden age.
Flaubert and Zola scorned them. Rachilde and Lorrain perverted
them. Proust commemorated their last moments of glory. Focusing on
the bibelot (the modern French term for knick-knack, curiosity or
other collectible), 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 restructured the literary text according to
the practical logic of daily life, calling into question
established scholarly notions of order. Her study makes an
important contribution to the literary history of material culture.
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