Michael Lucey

The Misfit of the Family

Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the portrayal of sexuality in Balzac and the psychoanalytic preoccupations of his critics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 149mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331568
• ISBN-10: 082233156X
• Artikelnr.: 21700222

Autorenporträt

Michael Lucey

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Preface xiii
Introduction: Balzac and Alternative Families 1
1. Legal Melancholy: Balzac's Eugénie Grandet and the Napoleonic Code 31
2. On Not Getting Married in a Balzac Novel 65
Interlude: Balzac and Same-Sex Relations in the 1830s 82
3. Balzac's Queer Cousins and Their Friends 124
4. The Shadow Economy of Queer Social Capital: Lucien de Rubempré and
Vautrin 171
Epilogue: Vautrin's Progeny 225
Notes 239
Works Cited 289
Index 303