Stealing Things

Theft and the Author in Nineteenth-Century France

Rosemary A. Peters (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

276 Seiten

2015
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1645-7 (ISBN)

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Stealing Things demonstrates how nineteenth-century French narratives portraying the “thief” figure reflect and critique popular attitudes of the times. This book focuses on how stolen objects shape individual identity and social status.

Stealing Things traces the representations of thieves and thievery in nineteenth-century French novels. Re-reading canonical texts by Balzac, the Comtesse de Ségur, and Zola through the lens of crime, Peters highlights bourgeois anxiety about ownership and objects while considering the impact of literature on popular attitudes about crime and its legislation and punishment. A detailed analysis of the role of objects, this work chronicles nineteenth-century changes in legal attitudes, popular mentalities, and individual and social identity, focusing particularly on the resulting transformations in representations of gender, class, and (criminal) subjectivity.

Rosemary Peters is assistant professor in the Department of French Studies and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. She has edited two volumes of collected essays and is the founder of the Foreign Language Film Conference.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Codes for Honest People
2. Objects of Fiction, Affairs of State
3. Time Bandits: Purloining the Pocket Watch
4. Identify Theft in the Second Empire
5. Out of the Shadows, Into the Shops: Theft, Gender, and Object Relations
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 227 mm
Gewicht	413 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4985-1645-9 / 1498516459
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-1645-7 / 9781498516457
Zustand	Neuware