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The Misfit of the Family - Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality (Paperback)
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The Misfit of the Family - Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality (Paperback)
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In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honore de Balzac
(1799-1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand
characters. The Misfit of the Family reveals how Balzac, in
imagining the dense, vividly rendered social world of his novels,
used his writing as a powerful means to understand and analyze-as
well as represent-a range of forms of sexuality. Moving away from
the many psychoanalytic approaches to the novelist's work, Michael
Lucey contends that in order to grasp the full complexity with
which sexuality was understood by Balzac, it is necessary to
appreciate how he conceived of its relation to family, history,
economics, law, and all the many structures within which
sexualities take form.The Misfit of the Family is a compelling
argument that Balzac must be taken seriously as a major inventor
and purveyor of new tools for analyzing connections between the
sexual and the social. Lucey's account of the novelist's deployment
of "sexual misfits" to impel a wide range of his most canonical
works-Cousin Pons, Cousin Bette, Eugenie Grandet, Lost Illusions,
The Girl with the Golden Eyes-demonstrates how even the flexible
umbrella term "queer" barely covers the enormous diversity of
erotic and social behaviors of his characters. Lucey draws on the
thinking of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu and engages the
work of critics of nineteenth-century French fiction, including
Naomi Schor, D. A. Miller, Franco Moretti, and others. His
reflections on Proust as Balzac's most cannily attentive reader
suggest how the lines of social and erotic force he locates in
Balzac's work continued to manifest themselves in twentieth-century
writing and society.
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