Titlebook: Balzac, Literary Sociologist; Allan H. Pasco Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 Balzac.La Comédie humaine.Lite

Postmenopause

,A “Divine” Comedy: ,,gly besotted with his worship of gold. When Eugénie falls in love with Charles and is later abandoned, the novel plays on an allusion to Christ’s promised return at the end of the age. On a spiritual level, Eugénie turns from gold to God. The developing maturity of her gentle nature indicates returning force in the Catholic Church of Balzac’s day.

食品室

欢腾

小臼

矛盾心理

Restoration Boneyard: ,,hing of its previous rights, privileges, and virtues. In preserving Victurnien from jail, Balzac exposes the hollow reality of justice that does not rest on eternal, fundamental principles like rectitude and truth, but rather on influence and secrecy.

博爱家

Aeries and Muck: ,,tes a small town printing business, journalism, and the demi-monde. Little by little the emphasis on the capital city increases, as it has through the ten novels of the .. Balzac uses this concluding novel to insist once again on provincial stultification and the waste of youth.

调味品

Richard Luchsinger,Gottfried E. Arnolds suborned. People are compelled to discard old values and bow to the prevailing god of material wealth. Balzac said he was an “historian of manners [.].” He might better have called himself a “literary sociologist.”

美丽的写

冒失

conceal

Allan H. PascoEncapsulates over ten years of research on the topic, foregrounding the discussion of Balzac with other sociologists, writers, and historians during his time.Provides a broad cultural context that wil