The Living Death of Modernity: Balzac, Baudelaire, Zola

by Dorothy Kelly

Book Overview

Living-dead characters appear surprisingly often in the realist works of Balzac and Zola, and in the modern poetry of Baudelaire. In this era of industrialization and modernization, images of the living dead disrupt this state of the new and make visible the impossibility of erasing the past. A skeleton that communicates with a character during a shopping trip, a body taken over by a past ancestor, a ghost that haunts through the floorboards, or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781886547
• ISBN13: 9781781886540
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Legenda
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"