Fiction Rivals Science
Subtitle: The French Novel from Balzac to Proust
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780826213570
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Science in literature; General; French Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Literary Criticism; Europe; History and criticism; European - French; European - General; 19th century; France; French fiction; Literature And Science
Description: "In Fiction Rivals Science, Allen Thiher describes the epistemic rivalry that the major nineteenth-century French novelists felt in dealing with science. After brief considerations of Stendhal, Thiher focuses on the four most important "realist" novelists in France: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and, going into the twentieth century, Proust. According to Thiher, each of these novelists considered himself to be in competition with science to make the novel an instrument for knowledge."--BOOK JACKET.