Edmond de Goncourt and the Novel

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Edmond de Goncourt and the Novel is written by Katherine Ashley and published by Rodopi. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9042016469 (ISBN 10) and 9789042016460 (ISBN 13).

"Edmond de Goncourt's four solo novels are not simply extensions of the Goncourt brothers' joint project, but attempts to deviate from the Naturalism with which their name had come to be associated. By analysing paratexts, the relationship between documentation and fiction, as well as plot devices and themes, this study links the evolution of Goncourt's fiction to wider literary debates surrounding Naturalism, Decadence and the renewal of the novel in fin de siecle France. In bringing Goncourt's writings to an English-speaking public, it will be of interest to students and scholars of the literary history of the late-nineteenth-century France."--BOOK JACKET.