Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-198) and indexes.
Père Goriot and La Comédie humaine : from text to macrotext / Eric Le Calvez -- Narrate and educate : Le Père Goriot and the realist Bildungsroman / Claudia Brodsky Lacour -- Fathers and sons in Old Goriot : the symbolic dimension of Balzac's realism / Ruth Amossy -- Balzacorama : mass culture in Old Goriot / Dean de la Motte -- Reading social and historical space in Le Père Goriot's descriptions / James H. Reid -- Moral complexity in Le Père Goriot : Balzac between Kant and Nietzsche / David R. Ellison -- Balzac and the modern city : mapping Paris in Old Goriot / David F. Bell -- Narratological approach : the narrator in Le Père Goriot / Gerald Prince -- Feminist approach : realism and its others : reading bodies in Balzac's Le Père Goriot and Girardin's La Canne de M. de Balzac / Margaret Waller -- Between bodies and texts : a psychoanalytic reading of Le Père Goriot / Dorothy Kelly -- Queer theory approach : gender and genre in Old Goriot / Lawrence R. Schehr -- Kinship, economics, and queer sexuality in Balzac's Old Goriot / Michael Lucey -- Thematic approach : seeing to learn, learning to see : Rastignac's visual education / John T. Booker -- Question of style in Old Goriot / Eric Bordas -- Teaching Old Goriot in a course on French culture : Balzac's myth of Paris revisited / Catherine Nesci -- Nuance in the novel : teaching Le Père Goriot in the context of a course of French or world literature / Laurence M. Porter -- You can't judge a book by its cover : teaching Le Père Goriot and modernism / Janet Beizer -- Teaching Old Goriot across the disciplines : mapping social and urban space / Sharon Marcus and Vanessa Schwartz