Honoré de Balzac

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Standard Name: Balzac, Honoré de
Used Form: Honore de Balzac
Coloured photograph or daguerrotype of Honoré de Balzac by Louis-Auguste Bisson, 1842. Balzac stands in a pose of sturdy defiance, his white shirt open and an open palm to his breast. He has a small moustache and thick page-boy-style hair.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Charlotte Brontë
CB 's comments on Jane Austen , whom she first read at this time, reflect her own literary priorities: She does her business of delineating the surface of the lives of genteel English people curiously...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Willa Cather
Here she complains that the modern novel has been taken over by [t]he property-man, by an obsession with the vivid presentation of material objects.
Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
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Even Balzac , she says, is memorable for his...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Frances Trollope
FT 's political conservatism affected her judgements of literature as well as politics. She forcefully expresses her dislike for republicanism, denounces freedom of the press as the most awful engine that Providence has permitted the...

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