Spectacles Of Realism: Gender, Body, Genre (Studies in Classical Philology)

With particular reference to nineteenth-century French culture, the contributors explore the role realism has played in the social construction of gender and sexuality. Among their subjects are nineteenth-century physiologies, photographs, caricatures, and Balzac's Comedie humaine; the ethnographic claims of the Goncourts' naturalism and the historical claims of Zola's; and the allure of exotica displayed at new museums and international expositions.Margaret Cohen is the author of 'Spectacles Of Realism: Gender, Body, Genre (Studies in Classical Philology)', published 1995 under ISBN 9780816625215 and ISBN 0816625212.