Beauty raises the dead : literature and loss in the fin de siècle / Robert Ziegler.

Author/creator Ziegler, Robert, 1947-
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©2002.
Description189 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Naturalism, decadence, and the psychology of loss -- Mourning and incorporation: Villiers's "Véra" and Georges Rodenbach's Bruges-la-morte -- Matricide and the construction of the audience in Rachilde's La jongleuse and Lorrain's Monsieur de Bougrelon -- Creation as disillusionment in Catulle Mendès's Le chercheur de tares and Marcel Schwob's Le livre de Monelle -- The artist in utopia: J.-K. Huysmans's Là-bas and Octave Mirbeau's La 628-E8.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 179-184) and index.
LCCN 2001037566
ISBN087413773X (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PQ295.D4 Z54 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold