Article: The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality.(Book Review)

The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality. By Michael Lucey. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xxx + 308.

Readers of criticism on French literature will know Professor Lucey's work from his 1995 book on Gide's Bent: Sexuality, Politics, Writing. In stepping back to treat the writing of Balzac, Lucey might seem to be taking queer theory into the hostile terrain of the patriarch of the Comedie humaine; in other words the Balzac associated with the 'Avant-propos' written towards the end of his series. In this key paratext, the novelist asserts the conservative ideology of 'deux verites eternelles', monarchy and religon, but Lucey ...

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