Real time : accelerating narrative from Balzac to Zola

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Real time : accelerating narrative from Balzac to Zola

Title remainder

accelerating narrative from Balzac to Zola

Statement of responsibility

David F. Bell

Creator

• Bell, David F

Subject

• Communication in literature
• Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation
• French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Speed in literature
• Stendhal, 1783-1842 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation

Language

eng

Summary

In "Real Time" David F. Bell explores the decisive impact the accelerated movement of people and information had on the fictions of four giants of French realism--Balzac, Stendhal, Dumas, and Zola. Nineteenth-century technological advances radically altered the infrastructure of France, changing the ways ordinary citizens--and literary characters--viewed time, space, distance, and speed. The most influential of these advances included the improvement of the stagecoach, the growth of road and canal networks leading to the advent of the railway, and the increasing use of mail, and of the optical telegraph. Citing examples from a wide range of novels and stories, Bell demonstrates the numerous ways in which these trends of acceleration became not just literary devices and themes but also structuring principles of the novels themselves

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Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

843/.709355

Index

index present

LC call number

PQ653

LC item number

.B38 2004eb

Literary form

non fiction

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• standards specifications
• bibliography