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The Anxiety of Dispossession. Jealousy in Nineteenth-century French Culture.
Masha Belenky
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Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 404.
In nineteenth-century France an obsession with jealousy swept the culture as a whole. Virtually every major French novelist employed it as a central plot device. At the same time, jealousy became a key theme for a broad range of medical, journalistic, and moralist authors interested in the study of contemporary mores. In The Anxiety of Dispossession: Jealousy in Nineteenth-Century French Culture, Masha Belenky argues that it was through narratives of jealousy that writers grappled with the crises of political and moral authority, anxieties surrounding changing gender roles, and new ideas about marriage that defined post-Revolution
In nineteenth-century France an obsession with jealousy swept the culture as a whole. Virtually every major French novelist employed it as a central plot device. At the same time, jealousy became a key theme for a broad range of medical, journalistic, and moralist authors interested in the study of contemporary mores. In The Anxiety of Dispossession: Jealousy in Nineteenth-Century French Culture, Masha Belenky argues that it was through narratives of jealousy that writers grappled with the crises of political and moral authority, anxieties surrounding changing gender roles, and new ideas about marriage that defined post-Revolution
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482911
SKU
V9781611482911
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About Masha Belenky
Masha Belenky is associate professor of French at the George Washington University.
Reviews for The Anxiety of Dispossession. Jealousy in Nineteenth-century French Culture.
'The green-eyed monster provides Masha Belenky with a wonderful topic to explore in The Anxiety of Dispossession. As she ably demonstrates, jealousy haunted the cultural imagination of nineteenth-century France. . . . Lucid, informative and persuasive, The Anxiety of Dispossession allows us to re-examine nineteenth-century literature and culture from a fresh and intriguing perspective.'
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