Trauma and Its Representations: The Social Life of Mimesis in Post-revolutionary France

Trauma and Its Representations: The Social Life of Mimesis in Post-revolutionary France
ISBN-10
0801867231
ISBN-13
9780801867231
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
294
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
JHU Press
Author
Deborah Jenson

Description

Through innovative readings of museum catalogs, the writings of Benjamin Constant, the novels of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert, and other works, Jenson demonstrates how mimesis functions as a form of symbolic wounding in French Romanticism."--BOOK JACKET.

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