Spectacles Of Realism: Gender, Body, Genre
Spectacles Of Realism: Gender, Body, Genre
by Margaret Cohen
contributions by Christopher Prendergast
University of Minnesota Press, 1995
Paper: 978-0-8166-2521-5
Library of Congress Classification HQ1190.R435 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.4201
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Preface: Reconfiguring Realism
- Introduction: Realism, God's Secret, and the Body
- Female Sexuality and the Referent of Enlightenment Realisms
- Censoring the Realist Gaze
- Realism without a Human Face
- In Lieu of a Chapter on Some French Women Realist Novelists
- S/Z, Realism, and Compulsory Heterosexuality
- Real Fashion: Clothes Unmake the Working Woman
- Figura Serpentinata: Visual Seduction and the Colonial Gaze
- Flaubert and Realism: Paternity, Authority, and Sexual Difference
- The Body and the Body Politic in the Novels of the Goncourts
- Experimenting on Women: Zola's Theory and Practice of the Experimental Novel
- Temples of Delight: Consuming Consumption in Emile Zola's Au Bonheur des dames
- The Morgue and the Musée Grévin: Understanding the Public Taste for Reality in Fin-de Siècle Paris
- Bayadères, Stéréorama, and Vahat-Loukoum: Technological Realism in the Age of Empire
- A Question of Reference: Male Sexuality in Phallic Theory
- Courbet's L'Origine du monde: The Origin without an Original
- Select Critical Bibliography