Stealing Things - Theft and the Author in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover)

Stealing Things traces the representations of thieves and thievery in nineteenth-century French novels. Re-reading canonical texts by Balzac, the Comtesse de Segur, and Zola through the lens of crime, Peters highlights bourgeois anxiety about ownership and objects while considering the impact of literature on popular attitudes about crime and its legislation and punishment. A detailed analysis of the role of objects, this work chronicles nineteenth-century changes in legal attitudes, popular mentalities, and individual and social identity, focusing particularly on the resulting transformations in representations of gender, class, and (criminal) subjectivity.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2013
First published:	August 2013
Authors:	Rosemary A Peters
Dimensions:	235 x 160 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-8004-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-7391-8004-5
Barcode:	9780739180044

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