The Cambridge companion to Balzac / 
edited by Owen Heathcote, Andrew Watts. 
 - xxiii, 218 pages ;  23 cm. 
 - Cambridge companions to authors .
 - Cambridge companions to literature. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / Andrew Watts -- Balzac: a portrait of the novelist as social historian and scientist / Elisabeth Gerwin -- Balzac's early works / Michael Tilby -- Balzac's correspondence / Ewa Szypula -- Fantasy and reality in La peau de chagrin / David F. Bell -- Balzac, money and the pursuit of power / Allan H. Pasco -- Le Père Goriot: arrivisme and the Parisian morality tale / Armine Kotin Martimer -- Illusions perdues: writesr, artists and the reflexive novel / Sotirios Paraschas -- Balzac, gender and sexuality: La Cousine Bette / Dorothy Kelly -- Space, religion and politics in the Scènes de la vie de campagne / Owen Heathcote -- Balzac's shorter fiction  / Tim Farrant -- Adapting Balzac / Andrew Watts -- Balzac's legacy / Scott Lee -- Epilogues. Dual Balzac / Chantal Chawaf -- Living Balzac / Èric Jourdan. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107066472 1107066476 9781107691285 1107691281 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>40026929992 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016031770 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ2181  / .C36 2017