An introduction to nineteenth-century French literature / Tim Farrant.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronology -- Histories. Napoleon : myth and impact ; Désenchantement and arrivisme ; Representing the contemporary : histories and novels -- Stories. Confessional narratives ; Memoirs and autobiographies ; Short stories -- Poetry. From classicism to iconoclasm ; Lyricism and vision ; Lyricism : Lamartine and Desbordes-Valmore ; Vision : Hugo and Baudelaire ; Things and effects ; L'art pour l'art and Parnassianism : Gautier and Leconte de Lisle ; Verlaine ; Rimbaud ; Mallarmé -- Drama. Public and private, political and personal ; Dramas of money and morals ; The farce of objects : Labiche and Feydeau ; Labiche : Un chapeau de paille d'Italie ; Feydeau : Le dindon ; Becque : Les corbeaux ; Dramas of interiority : Maeterlinck, Pelléas et Mélisande and Intérieur -- Novels. From gothic to modern ; Fiction : a women's genre? ; Serialisation and seriousness : the roman-feuilleton ; Reality and realism ; Objectivity and vision ; Naturalism and the novel -- Modernities. Science, subjectivity and fiction ; Dreams, prose poetry, subjectivity and the unconscious ; Dreams : Nerval ; Prose poetry : Baudelaire, Lautréamont ; Subjectivity and the unconscious : Laforgue ; Modernity and experiment in theatre -- Margins, peripheries and centres. Space, place and perspective ; Paris and the provinces ; Artists and bourgeois, bohemians and dandies ; Gender and sexuality ; Travel, the exotic and race ; Travel and the exotic ; Race ; Anti-semitism and the Dreyfus affair ; Coda : two telling texts -- Glossary of literary figures.

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