Stealing Things: Theft and the Author in Nineteenth-Century France

Rosemary A. Peters

Stealing Things: Theft and the Author in Nineteenth-Century France
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Lexington Books
Country
United States
Published
28 August 2013
Pages
276
ISBN
9780739180044

Stealing Things: Theft and the Author in Nineteenth-Century France

Rosemary A. Peters

Stealing Things traces the representations of thieves and thievery in nineteenth-century French novels. Re-reading canonical texts by Balzac, the Comtesse de Segur, 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.

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