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Wegmann, Hannah Katherine.

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In Search of the City: Power, Identity, and Narratives of Urbanization from Stendhal to Zola.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	In Search of the City: Power, Identity, and Narratives of Urbanization from Stendhal to Zola./
Author:	Wegmann, Hannah Katherine.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	289 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-11A(E).
Subject:	French literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10785854
ISBN:	9780438149311

In Search of the City: Power, Identity, and Narratives of Urbanization from Stendhal to Zola.
Wegmann, Hannah Katherine.

In Search of the City: Power, Identity, and Narratives of Urbanization from Stendhal to Zola. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 289 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 2018.

This dissertation studies urbanization in nineteenth-century French novels, exploring the ways that this demographic phenomenon structures plot, describes inner transformations, and most importantly becomes a catalyst for confronting and challenging established power structures. Characters who transition from rural to urban states, either geographic and actual, or interior and moral, force confrontations between a whole series of power constructs embodied by the country and city. Their evolution, mapped in conjunction with demographic studies and the writings of urban theorists, allows us to explore questions of authority, reality, language, and gender in nineteenth-century France. An analysis of the concrete urbanization of Julien Sorel in Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir is followed by a study of the abstract urbanization of Emma in Flaubert's Madame Bovary, who refashions her identity and morals in line with urban ideals. Chapter three employs Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames to study the urbanization reshaping the economic power structures of Paris. Chapter four uses Zola's L'Assommoir to question the nineteenth-century idealism behind many urban reforms. Using works by Flaubert, Theophile Gautier, Pierre Loti, George Sand, Claire de Duras, and numerous visual artists, the final chapter explores the relationship between urbanization and Orientalism by transposing the rural-urban binary onto the relationship between Occident and Orient.

ISBN: 9780438149311Subjects--Topical Terms:

644020
French literature.

In Search of the City: Power, Identity, and Narratives of Urbanization from Stendhal to Zola.
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