The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction (Paperback)

Acknowledgements; Introduction: fin de siecle, fin de famille?; Part I. The Promiscuous Narrative of 'Pot-Bouille': 1. Demon lover or erotic atheist?; 2. The rhythms of performance; Part II. Pleasures and Fears of Paternity: Maupassant and Zola: 3. Bel-Ami: fantasies of seduction and colonization; 4. Incest in Les Rougon-Macquart; Part III. The Blindness of Passions: Huysmans, Hennique and Zola: 5. The conquest of privacy in A Rebours; 6. Painting, politics and architecture; Coda: Bourget's Un Divorce and the 'honnete femme'; Notes; Bibliography; Index.