The collector in nineteenth-century French literature
Subtitle: representation, identity, knowledge
By: Emma Bielecki
Series: French studies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- 32
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783034307574
Subjects: French literature; Collectors and collecting in literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The physiology of the collector; title: Of money and museums: le cousin pons and the death of the collector; title: Collecting the self; title: (re)collecting the past; title: The poverty of taxonomy; title: To create or to collect?.