The Living Death of Modernity: Balzac, Baudelaire, Zola

Dorothy Kelly

The Living Death of Modernity
Balzac, Baudelaire, Zola

Dorothy Kelly

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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist

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Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), French poet

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Émile Zola (1840-1902), French novelist

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Research Monographs in French Studies 63

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22 July 2021 • 184pp

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Living-dead characters appear surprisingly often in the realist works of Balzac and Zola, and in the modern poetry of Baudelaire. In this era of industrialization and modernization, images of the living dead disrupt this state of the new and make visible the impossibility of erasing the past. A skeleton that communicates with a character during a shopping trip, a body taken over by a past ancestor, a ghost that haunts through the floorboards, or a more symbolic dead heart -- living death takes many shapes. In readings of these authors, Dorothy Kelly, who has written extensively on the literature of this period, charts the various ways that this image permeates certain works of these three authors and the meanings that it generates.

Dorothy Kelly is Professor of French at Boston University.

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1-8	Introduction Dorothy Kelly doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgrg3.5	Cite
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9-51	Chapter 1 Balzac and the Living Death of Modernity Dorothy Kelly doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgrg3.6	Cite
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52-94	Chapter 2 Baudelaire: Woman, the City, and Living Death Dorothy Kelly doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgrg3.7	Cite
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95-146	Chapter 3 Zola: Heredity and Social Living Death Dorothy Kelly doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgrg3.8	Cite
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147-154	Conclusion: Bare Life and the Living Death of Modernity Dorothy Kelly doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgrg3.9	Cite
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167-174	Index Dorothy Kelly doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgrg3.11	Cite
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The Living Death of ModernityBalzac, Baudelaire, Zola

Dorothy Kelly

The Living Death of Modernity
Balzac, Baudelaire, Zola