Real time : accelerating narrative from Balzac to Zola / David F. Bell.

By:

Bell, David F

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780252090479
0252090470

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Real timeDDC classification:

843/.709355 21

LOC classification:

PQ653

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Contents:

Webs : genealogies, roads, streets (Balzac) -- Intersections : relays, stagecoaches, walks (Balzac bis) -- Performances : horses, optical telegraphs (Stendhal) -- Velocities : precision, overload (Dumas) -- Conclusion: speed kills (Zola).

Summary: In "Real Time" David F. Bell explores the decisive impact the accelerated movement of people and information had on the fictions of four giants of French realism--Balzac, Stendhal, Dumas, and Zola. Nineteenth-century technological advances radically altered the infrastructure of France, changing the ways ordinary citizens--and literary characters--viewed time, space, distance, and speed. The most influential of these advances included the improvement of the stagecoach, the growth of road and canal networks leading to the advent of the railway, and the increasing use of mail, and of the optical telegraph. Citing examples from a wide range of novels and stories, Bell demonstrates the numerous ways in which these trends of acceleration became not just literary devices and themes but also structuring principles of the novels themselves.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-154) and index.

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In "Real Time" David F. Bell explores the decisive impact the accelerated movement of people and information had on the fictions of four giants of French realism--Balzac, Stendhal, Dumas, and Zola. Nineteenth-century technological advances radically altered the infrastructure of France, changing the ways ordinary citizens--and literary characters--viewed time, space, distance, and speed. The most influential of these advances included the improvement of the stagecoach, the growth of road and canal networks leading to the advent of the railway, and the increasing use of mail, and of the optical telegraph. Citing examples from a wide range of novels and stories, Bell demonstrates the numerous ways in which these trends of acceleration became not just literary devices and themes but also structuring principles of the novels themselves.