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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

Père Goriot

Contents

  • The Text of Père Goriot
  • Map: Paris in the 1820s
  • Responses: Contemporaries and Other Novelists
  • C.A. Sainte-Beuve, M. de Balzac
  • Charles Baudelaire, [Balzac’s Genius]
  • Théophile Gautier, [Balzac’s Modernity]
  • Hippolyte Taine, Balzac’s Philosophy
  • Emile Zola, From The Naturalist Novel
  • Marcel Proust, Sainte-Beuve and Balzac
  • Henry James, The Lesson of Balzac
  • Twentieth-Century Criticism
  • Ernst Robert Curtius, Energy
  • Albert Béguin, Balzac the Visionary
  • Erich Auerback, [Père Goriot]
  • Georges Poulet, Balzac
  • Michel Butor, Balzac and Reality
  • Louis Chevalier, La Comédie humaine: Historical Document?
  • Pierre Barberis, The Discovery of Solitude
  • Peter Brooks, Balzac: Representation and Signification
  • Sandy Petrey, The Father Loses a Name: Constantive Identity in Le Père Goriot
  • Nicole Mozet, Description and Deciphering: The Maison Vauquer
  • Janet L. Beizer, Mirrors and Fatherhood in Le Père Goriot
  • Honoré de Balzac: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography