Scott Carpenter
Ashgate
Hardback
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Focusing particularly on the aesthetics of fraudulence in works by M?rim?e Balzac Baudelaire Vidocq Sand and others Scott Carpenter analyzes manifestations of the false in nineteenth-century French literature. Placing literary representations within the context of cultural phenomena such as caricature political history and ceremonial events Carpenter argues that the problem of fraudulence involves a blurring of limits between hitherto discrete categories challenging Romantic notions of authenticity and sincerity.
Ashgate
Hardback
200
Focusing particularly on the aesthetics of fraudulence in works by M?rim?e Balzac Baudelaire Vidocq Sand and others Scott Carpenter analyzes manifestations of the false in nineteenth-century French literature. Placing literary representations within the context of cultural phenomena such as caricature political history and ceremonial events Carpenter argues that the problem of fraudulence involves a blurring of limits between hitherto discrete categories challenging Romantic notions of authenticity and sincerity.