Spectacles of Realism

With particular reference to nineteenth-century French culture, the contributors explore the role realism has played in the social construction of gender and sexuality. Among their subjects are nineteenth-century physiologies, photographs, caricatures, and Balzac's Comedie humaine; the ethnographic claims of the Goncourts' naturalism and the historical claims of Zola's; and the allure of exotica displayed at new museums and international expositions.

Softcover. English. University of Minnesota Press. 1995. ISBN: 9780816625215. 384 pp. Fair/good, name inside. Book No: 60683