Beauty raises the dead : literature and loss in the fin de siècle /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ziegler, Robert, 1947-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newark : London : University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, [2002]
Subjects:	French literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Decadence (Literary movement) > France. Bereavement in literature. Loss (Psychology) in literature.

Table of Contents:

Naturalism, decadence, and the psychology of loss
Mourning and incorporation: Villiers's "Véra" and Georges Rodenbach's Bruges-la-morte
Matricide and the construction of the audience in Rachilde's La jongleuse and Lorrain's Monsieur de Bougrelon
Creation as disillusionment in Catulle Mendès's Le chercheur de tares and Marcel Schwob's Le livre de Monelle
The artist in utopia: J.-K. Huysmans's Là-bas and Octave Mirbeau's La 628-E8.