Title: Fiction Rivals Science
Subtitle: The French Novel from Balzac to Proust
First published: November 2001
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.
Subjects: Literature and science, History and criticism, Science in literature, French fiction, French fiction, history and criticism
Places: France
Time periods: 19th century