How Long to Read Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust

How Long Does it Take to Read Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust by Janell Watson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book addresses the issues of collecting, consuming, classifying and describing the curiosities, antiques and objets d'art that proliferated in French literary texts during the last decades of the nineteenth century. After Balzac made such issues significant in canonical literature, the Goncourt brothers, Huysmans, Mallarmé and Maupassant celebrated their golden age. Flaubert and Zola scorned them. Rachilde and Lorrain perverted them. Proust commemorated their last moments of glory. Focusing on the bibelot (the modern French term for knick-knack, curiosity or other collectible), Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn restructured the literary text according to the practical logic of daily life, calling into question established scholarly notions of order. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture.

How long is Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust?

Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust by Janell Watson is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust aloud.

What Reading Level is Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust?

Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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