文学的社会学者バルザック Balzac, Literary Sociologist

Pasco, Allan H.

Palgrave Macmillan（2016/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783319393322
• DDC分類 809

Full Description

Melding the fields of literature, sociology, and history, this book develops analyses of the ten novels in Balzac's Scenes de la vie de province. Following the order of the novels projected in La Comedie humaine, Allan H. Pasco investigates how Balzac used art as a tool of social inquiry to obtain startlingly accurate insights into the relationships that defined his turbulent society. His repeated claim to be an "historian of manners" was more than an empty boast. Though Balzac was first and foremost a great novelist, he was also a trailblazing sociologist, joining Henri de Saint-Simon and the subsequent Auguste Comte in considering the relationships that represent society as an interacting, interlocking web. Using a methodology that combines close analysis with a broad cultural context, Pasco demonstrates that Balzac's sociological vision was extraordinarily pertinent to both his and our days.

Contents

Table of ContentsForewordConventions 1. Introduction 2. Through the Glass Darkly, Ursule Mirouet 3. A "Divine" Comedy, Eugenie Grandet 4. The Gerontocracy and Youth, Pierrette 5. The Tangible and the Intangible, Le Cure de Tours 6. The Dying Patriarchy, La Rabouilleuse 7. Nascent Capitalism, "L'Illustre Gaudissart" 8. A Provincial Muse, La Muse du departement 9. Empty Wombs, La Vieille Fille 10. Restoration Boneyard, Le Cabinet des antiques 11. Aeries and Muck, Illusions perdues 12. Conclusion Works Cited