Reappearing Characters in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Examines the reappearance of characters both within the context of a single author's work and in 'derivative' works such as stage adaptations and sequels
Looks at characters from an innovative perspective: the history of originality and of intellectual property

Places nineteenth-century French literature in a wider cultural and economic context

Auteur
Sotirios Paraschas is Teaching Fellow in Modern Greek at King's College, London, UK, and has previously been Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in French at the University of Warwick. He is the author of The Realist Author and Sympathetic Imagination (2013).

Contenu
Introduction: 'La littérature ruminante'.- 1. 'Le revenant littéraire': Balzac and the Reappearance of Characters as a Strategy of Re-appropriation.- 2. Zola and 'le revenant héréditaire'.- 3. The Poetics of Forgery in Charles Rabou's Sequel to Balzac's Le Député d'Arcis.- 4. 'Tous pour un, un pour tous': Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet, and the Musketeers Trilogy.- 5. 'Le collaborateur fantomatique': Zola, William Busnach, and the Adaptations of Les Rougon-Macquart for the Stage.- Concluding Reflections.- Appendix 1. List of the Stage Adaptations of Balzac's Works during his Lifetime.- Appendix 2. List of the Changes in the Description of the Heredity of the Rougon-Macquart.