Real time : accelerating narrative from Balzac to Zola / David F. Bell.

By:

Bell, David F [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780252090479

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PQ653 .R435 2004

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Contents:

Intersections : relays, stagecoaches, walks (Balzac bis) -- Performances : horses, optical telegraphs (Stendhal) -- Velocities : precision, overload (Dumas) -- Conclusion: speed kills (Zola).

Subject: In "Real Time" David F. Bell explores the decisive impact the accelerated movement of people and information had on the fictions of four giants of French realism--Balzac, Stendhal, Dumas, and Zola. Nineteenth-century technological advances radically altered the infrastructure of France, changing the ways ordinary citizens--and literary characters--viewed time, space, distance, and speed. The most influential of these advances included the improvement of the stagecoach, the growth of road and canal networks leading to the advent of the railway, and the increasing use of mail, and of the optical telegraph. Citing examples from a wide range of novels and stories, Bell demonstrates the numerous ways in which these trends of acceleration became not just literary devices and themes but also structuring principles of the novels themselves.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Webs : genealogies, roads, streets (Balzac) -- Intersections : relays, stagecoaches, walks (Balzac bis) -- Performances : horses, optical telegraphs (Stendhal) -- Velocities : precision, overload (Dumas) -- Conclusion: speed kills (Zola).

In "Real Time" David F. Bell explores the decisive impact the accelerated movement of people and information had on the fictions of four giants of French realism--Balzac, Stendhal, Dumas, and Zola. Nineteenth-century technological advances radically altered the infrastructure of France, changing the ways ordinary citizens--and literary characters--viewed time, space, distance, and speed. The most influential of these advances included the improvement of the stagecoach, the growth of road and canal networks leading to the advent of the railway, and the increasing use of mail, and of the optical telegraph. Citing examples from a wide range of novels and stories, Bell demonstrates the numerous ways in which these trends of acceleration became not just literary devices and themes but also structuring principles of the novels themselves.

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