Trauma and its representations : the social life of mimesis in post-revolutionary France / Deborah Jenson.

Author/creator Jenson, Deborah
Format Book
Publication InfoBaltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Descriptionx, 294 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
French literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Mimesis in literature.

Contents Introduction : on social speculation -- Iconoclasm : setting wounds in stone at the Musée des monuments français, 1795-1816 -- Transpositionality : the political gets personal in Constant's Cécile -- Plagiarism : Duras, Desbordes-Valmore, and the scandalous potency of the woman author -- Harmony : Lamartine's social pain -- Analogy : slavery to duplicity in Sand's Indiana -- Fetishism : thinking with things in Flaubert's "Un coeur simple" -- Epilogue : French romanticism: posttraumatic Utopia/post-Utopian trauma.
Abstract The author argues that mimesis not only denotes the representation of reality, but is also a crucial concept for understanding the production of social meaning within specific historical concepts.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-279) and index.
LCCN 00012618
ISBN0801867231 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PQ283 .J46 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold