Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The bibelot: a nineteenth-century object 2. The logic(s) of material culture: imitation, accumulation, and mobility 3. The fashionable artistic interior: social (re)encoding in the domestic sphere 4. Flaubert's 'Musees recus': Bouvard and Pecuchet's consumerist epistemology 5. Narrate, describe, or catalogue? The inventory form in Balzac, the Goncourts, and Huysmans 6. The parlour of critical theory: Reading dwelling space across disciplines 7. Rearranging the Oedipus: fantastic and decadent floor-plans in Gautier, Maupassant, Lorrain, and Rachilde Notes Bibliography Index.