Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-198) and indexes.
Contents:
Teaching Old Goriot across the disciplines / Sharon Marcus and Vanessa Schwartz. Narrate and educate / Claudia Brodsky Lacour -- Fathers and sons in Old Goriot / Ruth Amossy -- Balzacorama / Dean de la Motte -- Reading social and historical space in Le Père Goriot's descriptions / James H. Reid -- Moral complexity in Le Père Goriot / David R. Ellison -- Balzac and the modern city / David F. Bell -- Narratological approach / Gerald Prince -- Feminist approach / Margaret Walker -- Between bodies and texts / Dorothy Kelly -- Queer theory approach / Lawrence R. Schehr -- Kinship, economics, and queer sexuality in Balzac's Old Goriot / Michael Lucey -- Thematic approach / John T. Booker -- Question of style in Old Goriot / Eric Bordas -- Teaching Old Goriot in a course on French culture / Catherine Nesci -- Nuance in the novel / Laurence M. Porter -- You can't judge a book by its cover / Janet Beizer -- Teaching Old Goriot across the disciplines / Sharon Marcus and Vanessa Schwartz.
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