The Living Death of Modernity
Balzac, Baudelaire, Zola
Dorothy Kelly
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Research Monographs in French Studies 63 Legenda 22 July 2021 • 184pp ISBN: 978-1-781886-50-2 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-781886-54-0 (paperback, 21 December 2023) ISBN: 978-1-781886-58-8 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR ModernFrenchFictionPoetrystudent-priced In addition to its original library hardback edition, this title is now on sale in the new student-priced Legenda paperback range. 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. Contents:
Bibliography entry: Kelly, Dorothy, The Living Death of Modernity: Balzac, Baudelaire, Zola, Research Monographs in French Studies, 63 (Legenda, 2021) First footnote reference: 35 Dorothy Kelly, The Living Death of Modernity: Balzac, Baudelaire, Zola, Research Monographs in French Studies, 63 (Legenda, 2021), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Kelly, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Kelly, Dorothy. 2021. The Living Death of Modernity: Balzac, Baudelaire, Zola, Research Monographs in French Studies, 63 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Kelly 2021: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Kelly 2021: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Living-Death-Modernity www.mhra.org.uk/publications/rmfs-63 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
