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Tables of Contents for Pere Goriot
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editor's Introduction
vii
The Text of Pere Goriot
1
220
Map: Paris in the 1820s
2
219
Responses: Contemporaries and Other Novelists
221
40
C. A. Sainte-Beuve
M. de Balzac
221
3
Charles Baudelaire
[Balzac's Genius]
224
1
Theophile Gautier
[Balzac's Modernity]
225
3
Hippolyte Taine
Balzac's Philosophy
228
7
Emile Zola
From The Naturalist Novel
235
3
Marcel Proust
Sainte-Beuve and Balzac
238
7
Henry James
The Lesson of Balzac
245
16
Twentieth-Century Criticism
261
104
Ernst Robert Curtius
Energy
261
7
Albert Beguin
Balzac the Visionary
268
11
Erich Auerbach
[Pere Goriot]
279
10
Georges Poulet
Balzac
289
5
Michel Butor
Balzac and Reality
294
7
Louis Chevalier
La Comedie humaine: Historical Document?
301
3
Pierre Barberis
The Discovery of Solitude
304
10
Peter Brooks
Balzac: Representation and Signification
314
14
Sandy Petrey
The Father Loses a Name: Constative Identity in Le Pere Goriot
328
10
Nicole Mozet
Description and Deciphering: The Maison Vauquer
338
15
Janet L. Beizer
Mirrors and Fatherhood in Le Pere Goriot
353
12
Honore de Balzac
A Chronology
365
4
Selected Bibliography
369