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

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-- Part I. Stendhal's privilege-- Chapter 1. The life and death of Henry Brulard-- Chapter 2. The ghost in the map-- Part II. Nerval beyond narrative-- Chapter 3. Orientations: writing the self in Nerval's Voyage en orient-- Chapter 4. Unfolding Nerval-- Part III. Sand's utopian subjects-- Chapter 5. Drowning in the text: space and Indiana-- Chapter 6. Carte blanche: charting utopia in Sand's Nanon-- Part IV. Branching off: genealogy and map in the Rougon-Macquart-- Chapter 7. Zola and the contradictory origins of the novel-- Chapter 8. Mapping creative destruction in Zola-- Part V. Proust's double text-- Chapter 9. The law of the land-- Chapter 10. Creating a space for time-- Conclusion: Now and then: virtual spaces and real subjects in the twenty-first century.