Everyone knows something of nineteenth-century France - or do they?
"Les Miserables", "The Lady of the Camelias" and "The Three
Musketeers", "Balzac" and "Jules Verne" live in the popular
consciousness as enduring human documents and cultural icons. Yet,
the French nineteenth century was even more dynamic than the
stereotype suggests. This exciting new introduction takes the
literature of the period both as a window on past and present
mindsets and as an object of fascination in its own right.
Beginning with history, the century's biggest problem and
potential, it looks at narrative responses to historical, political
and social experience, before devoting central chapters to poetry,
drama and novels - all genres the century radically reinvented. It
then explores numerous modernities, ways nineteenth-century writing
and mentalities look forward to our own, before turning to
marginalities - subjects and voices the canon traditionally forgot.
No genre was left unchanged by the nineteenth century. This book
will help to discover them anew.
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