Balzac and the African Explorer: Cognitive Mapping of the faubourg Saint-Germain
A fresh reading of Balzac’s La Duchesse de Langeais (1834) reveals that the geography of African exploration, and of Andalusia as a liminal space between Europe and Africa, are mapped onto the geography of Paris. The class boundaries that separate the aristocratic faubourg Saint-Germain from the res...
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University of Nebraska Press
2017
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