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Stealing Things
Theft and the Author in Nineteenth-Century France
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2013
Summary
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.
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Edition
1/2013
Copyright Year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8004-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8005-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
265
Product Type
Monograph
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Table of Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 28
1 Codes for Honest People No access Pages 29 - 72
2 Objects of Fiction, Affairs of State No access Pages 73 - 110
3 Time Bandits No access Pages 111 - 146
4 Dangerous Classes and Displaced Documents No access Pages 147 - 192
5 Out of the Shadows, Into the Shops No access Pages 193 - 246
