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Beatrix.
Title:
Beatrix.
Author:
Wormeley, Katharine Prescott.
ISBN:
9781776539604
Physical Description:
1 online resource (410 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Note -- I - A Breton Town and Mansion -- II - The Baron, His Wife, and Sister -- III - Three Breton Silhouettes -- IV - A Normal Evening -- V - Calyste -- VI - Biography of Camille Maupin -- VII - Les Touches -- VIII - La Marquise Beatrix -- IX - A First Meeting -- X - Drama -- XI - Female Diplomacy -- XII - Correspondence -- XIII - Duel Between Women -- XIV - An Excursion to Croisic -- XV - Conti -- XVI - Sickness Unto Death -- XVII - A Death: A Marriage -- XVIII - The End of a Honey-Moon -- XIX - The First Lie of a Pious Duchess -- XX - A Short Treatise on Certainty: But Not from Pascal's Point of View -- XXI - The Wickedness of a Good Woman -- XXII - The Normal History of an Upper-Class Grisette -- XXIII - One of the Diseases of the Age -- XXIV - The Influence of Social Relations and Position -- XXV - A Prince of Bohemia -- XXVI - Disillusions-In All but La Fontaine's Fables -- Addendum -- Endnotes.
Abstract:
Honore de Balzac excelled at creating unforgettable characters, but most of his creations were works of pure fiction. Many critics have asserted that the novel Beatrix is a roman a clef depicting the life of the French memoirist George Sand, as well as the larger cultural shift from an era of genteel aristocracy and class stratification to a more democratic way of living.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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