Author: Chambers, Ross
Title: The Writing of Melancholy : Modes of Opposition in Early French Modernism
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1993). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xv,239 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: On Being 'Nouveau'; Anger Vaporized; The Duplicity of Power & the Power of Duplicity; Suicide without Pistols; Poetry in the Asiatic Mode; Memory & Melancholy; Repetition & Irony; In/Conclusion: Reading the Blur.

Keywords: French Modernist Literature, Literary Criticism, Early Modernism, Polarity, Gustave Flaubert, Gerard de Nerval, C.-P. Baudelaire, Theophile Gautier, Victor Hugo