Lucey / Barale / Goldberg The Misfit of the Family

Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8516-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten

Reihe: Series Q

Examines the portrayal of sexuality in Balzac and the psychoanalytic preoccupations of his critics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lucey, Michael

Barale, Michèle Aina

Goldberg, Jonathan

Moon, Michael

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Preface xiii

Introduction: Balzac and Alternative Families 1

1. Legal Melancholy: Balzac's Eugénie Grandet and the Napoleonic Code 31

2. On Not Getting Married in a Balzac Novel 65

Interlude: Balzac and Same-Sex Relations in the 1830s 82

3. Balzac's Queer Cousins and Their Friends 124

4. The Shadow Economy of Queer Social Capital: Lucien de Rubempré and Vautrin 171

Epilogue: Vautrin's Progeny 225

Notes 239

Works Cited 289

Index 303

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Lucey is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Gide’s Bent: Sexuality, Politics, Writing.