The colonial comedy: imperialism in the French realist novel

Synopsis

Through Jennifer Yee's Close Reading Of The Great Novelists Of The French Realist And Naturalist Canon - Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant - She Reveals That The Colonies Play A Role At A Distance Even In The Most Apparently Metropolitan Texts. Imported Objects -- The Real Cost Of Sugar : Ethics, The Slave Trade, And The Colonies -- The Great Imperial Scam -- Critical Orientalism : Misreading And Miswriting The Colonies -- The Black Maid And Her Mistress -- The Primitive Within. Jennifer Yee. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.