Author:
Bray, Patrick M. (Patrick Maxwell)
Imprint:Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013.
Descriptionxiii, 271 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:Revised and expanded version of the author's dissertation--Harvard, 2005, under the title: Novel selves: mapping the subject in Stendhal, Nerval and Proust.
Note:Introduction: Here and there: the subject in space and text -- Part I. Stendhal's privilege -- Chapter 1. The life and death of Henry Brulard -- Chapter 2. The ghost in the map -- Part II. Nerval beyond narrative -- Chapter 3. Orientations: writing the self in Nerval's Voyage en orient -- Chapter 4. Unfolding Nerval -- Part III. Sand's utopian subjects -- Chapter 5. Drowning in the text: space and Indiana -- Chapter 6. Carte blanche: charting utopia in Sand's Nanon -- Part IV. Branching off: genealogy and map in the Rougon-Macquart -- Chapter 7. Zola and the contradictory origins of the novel -- Chapter 8. Mapping creative destruction in Zola -- Part V. Proust's double text -- Chapter 9. The law of the land -- Chapter 10. Creating a space for time -- Conclusion: Now and then: virtual spaces and real subjects in the twenty-first century.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-261) and index.
