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Book SynopsisFocusing on Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, this explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and the world as a function of space in a novel turned map.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations 3 Acknowledgments 5 Introduction – Here and There: The Subject in Space and Text 8 Section I. Stendhal’s Privilege 28 Chapter 1 – The Life and Death of Henry Brulard 34 Chapter 2 – The Ghost in the Map 56 Section II. Nerval Beyond Narrative 82 Chapter 3 – Orientations: Writing the Self in Nerval’s Voyage en Orient 85 Chapter 4 – Unfolding Nerval 110 Section III. Sand’s Utopian Subjects 139 Chapter 5 – Drowning in the Text: Space and Indiana 143 Chapter 6 – Carte blanche: Charting Utopia in Sand’s Nanon 166 Section IV. Branching Off: Genealogy and Map in the Rougon-Macquart 189 Chapter 7 – Zola and the Contradictory Origins of the Novel 193 Chapter 8 – Mapping Creative Destruction in Zola 216 Section V. Proust’s Double Text 239 Chapter 9 – The Law of the Land 242 Chapter 10 – Creating a Space for Time 270 Conclusion – Now and Then: Virtual Spaces and Real Subjects in the 21st-Century 290 Works Cited 293 End Notes 304 Index 340
