Rosemary A. Peters

Stealing Things (eBook, ePUB)

Theft and the Author in Nineteenth-Century France

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739180051
• Artikelnr.: 39513018

Autorenporträt

Rosemary Peters is assistant professor in the Department of French Studies and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. She has edited two volumes of collected essays and is the founder of the Foreign Language Film Conference.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Codes for Honest People 2. Objects of Fiction
Affairs of State 3. Time Bandits: Purloining the Pocket Watch 4. Identify Theft in the Second Empire 5. Out of the Shadows
Into the Shops: Theft
Gender
and Object Relations Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author