Table of Contents
List of Illustrations 3
Acknowledgments 5
Introduction – Here and There: The Subject in Space and Text 8
Section I. Stendhal’s Privilege 28 Chapter 1 – The Life and Death of Henry Brulard 34 Chapter 2 – The Ghost in the Map 56
Section II. Nerval Beyond Narrative 82 Chapter 3 – Orientations: Writing the Self in Nerval’s Voyage en Orient 85 Chapter 4 – Unfolding Nerval 110
Section III. Sand’s Utopian Subjects 139 Chapter 5 – Drowning in the Text: Space and Indiana 143 Chapter 6 – Carte blanche: Charting Utopia in Sand’s Nanon 166
Section IV. Branching Off: Genealogy and Map in the Rougon-Macquart 189 Chapter 7 – Zola and the Contradictory Origins of the Novel 193 Chapter 8 – Mapping Creative Destruction in Zola 216
Section V. Proust’s Double Text 239 Chapter 9 – The Law of the Land 242 Chapter 10 – Creating a Space for Time 270
Conclusion – Now and Then: Virtual Spaces and Real Subjects in the 21st-Century 290
Works Cited 293
End Notes 304
Index 340