Spectacles of Realism : Gender, Body, Genre

With particular reference to nineteenth-century French culture, the contributors explore the role realism has played in the social construction of gender and sexuality. Among their subjects are nineteenth-century physiologies, photographs, caricatures, and Balzac's Comedie humaine; the ethnographic claims of the Goncourts' naturalism and the historical claims of Zola's; and the allure of exotica displayed at new museums and international expositions.Cohen, Margaret is the author of 'Spectacles of Realism : Gender, Body, Genre', published 1995 under ISBN 9780816625208 and ISBN 0816625204.