The Novel Map : Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction / Patrick M. Bray.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (285 pages): illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • 9780810166387
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Contents:
Introduction : Here and there: the subject in space and text -- Stendhal's privilege. The life and death of Henry Brulard ; The ghost in the map -- Nerval beyond narrative. Orientations : writing the self in Nerval's Voyage en orient ; Unfolding Nerval -- Sand's utopian subjects. Drowning in the text : space and Indiana ; Carte blanche : charting utopia in Sand's Nanon -- Branching off : genealogy and map in the Rougon-Macquart. Zola and the contradictory origins of the novel ; Mapping creative destruction in Zola -- Proust's double text. The law of the land ; Creating a space for time -- Conclusion : Now and then: virtual spaces and real subjects in the twenty-first century.
Summary: Focusing on Stendhal, Gerard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, this book explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and the world as a function of space in a novel turned map. With the rise of the novel and of autobiography, the literary and cultural contexts of nineteenth-century France reconfigured both the ways literature could represent subjects and the ways subjects related to space. In the first-person works of these authors, maps situate the narrator within the imaginary space of the novel. Yet the time inherent in the text's narrative unsettles the spatial self drawn by the maps and so creates a novel self, one which is both new and literary. The novel self transcends the rigid confines of a map. In this study, the author charts a new direction in critical theory.
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Revised and expanded version of the author's dissertation--Harvard, 2005, under the title: Novel selves: mapping the subject in Stendhal, Nerval and Proust.

Introduction : Here and there: the subject in space and text -- Stendhal's privilege. The life and death of Henry Brulard ; The ghost in the map -- Nerval beyond narrative. Orientations : writing the self in Nerval's Voyage en orient ; Unfolding Nerval -- Sand's utopian subjects. Drowning in the text : space and Indiana ; Carte blanche : charting utopia in Sand's Nanon -- Branching off : genealogy and map in the Rougon-Macquart. Zola and the contradictory origins of the novel ; Mapping creative destruction in Zola -- Proust's double text. The law of the land ; Creating a space for time -- Conclusion : Now and then: virtual spaces and real subjects in the twenty-first century.

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Focusing on Stendhal, Gerard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, this book explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and the world as a function of space in a novel turned map. With the rise of the novel and of autobiography, the literary and cultural contexts of nineteenth-century France reconfigured both the ways literature could represent subjects and the ways subjects related to space. In the first-person works of these authors, maps situate the narrator within the imaginary space of the novel. Yet the time inherent in the text's narrative unsettles the spatial self drawn by the maps and so creates a novel self, one which is both new and literary. The novel self transcends the rigid confines of a map. In this study, the author charts a new direction in critical theory.

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