This series publishes the latest research by teachers and researchers working in all the disciplines which constitute French studies in this period. The Editors take a broad view of French studies and intend to examine literary and cultural phenomena of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, excluding the Romantic movement, against their historical, political and social background in all the French-speaking countries.

Emma Bielecki teaches modern French literature at the University of Oxford. She holds an MA in French Studies and an MA in European History from University College London and was awarded her PhD by King’s College London for a thesis on representations of the collector in French literature from Balzac to Proust.

Contents: The Physiology of the Collector – Of Money and Museums: and the Death of the Collector – Collecting the Self – (Re)Collecting the Past – The Poverty of Taxonomy – To Create or to Collect? Inhaltsverzeichnis