Balzac and Violence: Representing History, Space, Sexuality and Death in La Comédie Humaine by Owen Heathcote

Balzac and Violence: Representing History, Space, Sexuality and Death in La Comédie Humaine

French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Owen Heathcote

293 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

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Violence is one of the main themes in the novels of Honor de Balzac. Executions, murders, savagery and death accompany the conspiracies and the turbulence that characterise his post-Revolutionary times, from the Terror to the Napoleonic campaigns...

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