Stealing Things

Rosemary A. Peters

earliest edition we have, 2013 Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2013

"Stealing Things traces the representations of thieves and thievery in nineteenth-century French novels. Re-reading canonical texts by Balzac, the Comtesse de Ségur, and Zola through the lens of crime, Peters highlights bourgeois anxiety about ownership and objects while considering the impact of literature on popular attitudes about crime and its legislation and punishment. A detailed analysis of the role of objects...

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Stealing Things edition · 2015 · Lexington Books/Fortress Academic · 276 pages · 9781498516457
Stealing Things edition · 2013 · Lexington Books/Fortress Academic · 9781299841505
Stealing Things edition · 2013 · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated · 276 pages · 9780739180044
Stealing Things edition · 2013 · Lexington Books/Fortress Academic · 9780739180051

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