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Phre Goriot

Balzac, Honore de Père Goriot. [0-451-52959-6]

best translation

Balzac : fiction and melodrama / Christopher Prendergast.

Prendergast, Christopher. . Balzac : fiction and melodrama / Christopher Prendergast. [0713159693 : ] London : E. Arnold, 1978.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PQ2181 .P68

Pere Goriot

Balzac,Hde Balzac,Hde. Pere Goriot. [0-451-52190-0]

recommended translation by Henry Reed

Marx and modern fiction / Edward J. Ahearn.

Ahearn, Edward J.. Marx and modern fiction / Edward J. Ahearn. [0300043562 (alk. paper)] New Haven : Yale University Press, c1989.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PS374.S7 A37 1989

moby-dick Balzac Golden Bowl Jane Austen Faulkner

Avoiding the reduction of the psychological and sexual to the ideological and the economic, Ahearn deals with three pairs of novels--Pride and Prejudice and Madame Bovary; The Golden Bowl and Ulysses; and Old Goriot and Absalom, Absalom! and Moby-Dick as an attempt at liberation from the "mutual joint-stock world" of modern capitalism. Ahearn's reading of these novels looks at narrative form, racial and sexual themes, and the primal or unconscious (even the religious) dimensions of these novels. Never losing the link between fiction and history, however Ahearn sees Moby-Dick's "impulse to leave the realm of the sociohistorical" as impossible and argues that Melville's attempted transformations of ideology and economics into other spheres of life are never complete. Fascinating readings emerge--e.g., linking Vautrin's rebellious dream of power with the activity of Faulkner's Sutpen

History of private life / Philippe Arie's and Georges Duby, general editors.

History of private life / Philippe ArieÌ€s and Georges Duby, general editors. [0674399757 (v. 1 : alk. paper) ] Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987-
Call#: Van Pelt Library GT2400 .H5713 1987

vol 4 chapter 3 -- cross sectional drawing of an apartment house where different floor reflect class divisions

Honore' de Balzac / edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Honore' de Balzac / edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom. [0791070425 ] Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2003.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PQ2181 .H67 2003

Fool's Gold: The Beginning of Balzac's Illusions perdues 5
Lawrence R. Schehr
Systematic Realism 23
William W Stowe
Victor Marchand: The Narrator as Story Seller
Balzac's "El Verdugo" 39
Janet L. Beizer
Reflections on Balzacian Models of Representation 51
Roland Le Huenen and Paul Perron
Balzac's Illusions Lost and Found 71
D. A. Miller
Epigrams and Ministerial Eloquence: The War
of Words in Balzac's La Peau de chagrin 91
David F Bell
Discourse, Power, and Necessity:
Contextualizing Le Cousin Pons 105
Jane A. Nicholson
Eugenie Grandet's Career as Heavenly Exile 121
Alexander Fischler
Cousin Bette: Balzac and the Historiography of Difference 135
Scott McCracken

Fool's Gold: The Beginning of Balzac's Illusions perdues

"Fool's Gold: The Beginning of Balzac's Illusions perdues" Symposium [0039-7709] 36.2 (1982). 149-.

Reflections on Balzacian Models of Representation

"Reflections on Balzacian Models of Representation" Poetics today [0333-5372] 5.4 (1984). 711-.