Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature

by Kevin McLaughlin and Kevin McLaughlin

Proposing a new interpretation of literature and mass culture in nineteenth-century Europe, this work focuses on works by Marx, Balzac, Dickens, Adorno, and Benjamin to explore in them a complex "mimetic" disposition toward commodification in the realm of culture. The aim of the book is twofold: to explicate in the work of Balzac and Dickens subtle and profoundly ambivalent attitudes toward the rapidly expanding mass culture of the 1830's in France...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804724113
• ISBN13: 9780804724111
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"