Stealing Things : Theft and the Author in Nineteenth-Century France
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1498516459
ISBN-13
9781498516457
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Lexington Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 30th, 2015
Print length
276 Pages
Weight
390 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.80 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Literary theoryLiterary studies: from c 1900 -
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Stealing Things demonstrates how nineteenth-century French narratives portraying the “thief” figure reflect and critique popular attitudes of the times. This book focuses on how stolen objects shape individual identity and social status.
Stealing Things traces the representations of thieves and thievery in nineteenth-century French novels. Re-reading canonical texts by Balzac, the Comtesse de Ségur, 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.
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