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Maurice Samuels

Born: 1968 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: He was born in Chicago, Illinois.

Biography: Maurice Samuels is a professor of French at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Email: maurice.samuels@yale.edu
Maurice Samuels on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=maurice+samuels

Selected Titles

The spectacular past :
ISBN: 0801489652 OCLC: 55085745

Cornell University Press, Ithaca : 2004.

Samuels shows how new technologies allowed a cult of the spectacle to pervade the national consciousness of post-Revolutionary France, & argues that the realist fiction of Balzac & Stendhal was a reaction to the spectacular mode of historical representation.

 

 

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