The Writing of Melancholy

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The Writing of Melancholy is written by Ross Chambers and published by University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226100707 (ISBN 10) and 9780226100708 (ISBN 13).

Sees in the disjunction between the narrative function and the textual function of mid-19th-century French literature, a reflection of the general malaise that swept the country in the wake of the failed revolution of 1848. Considers the works of Flaubert, Nerval, Baudelaire, Gautier, and Hugo. First published in French in 1987. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR