Stealing Things: Theft and the Author in Nineteenth-Century France
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Stealing Things traces the representations of thieves and thievery in nineteenth-century French novels. Re-reading canonical texts by Balzac, the Comtesse de S gur, and Zola through the lens of crime, Peters highlights bourgeois anxiety about ownership and objects while considering the impact of literature on popular attitudes about crime and its legislation and punishment. A detailed analysis of the role of objects, this work chronicles nineteenth-century changes in legal attitudes, popular mentalities, and individual and social identity, focusing particularly on the resulting transformations in representations of gender, class, and (criminal) subjectivity.
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LOC Call Number
PQ283 .P38 2013
ISBN
9780739180044
Publication Date
2013
Department
Comparative Literature (Interdepartmental Program), Department of French Studies
Publisher
Lexington Books
City
Lanham
Recommended Citation
Peters, Rosemary A., "Stealing Things: Theft and the Author in Nineteenth-Century France" (2013).