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Includes bibliographical references and index
A complex kind of training : L'Éducation sentimentale, modernity, and the changing phenomenology of motion -- An evolutionary naturalist intertext : the traffic jam as exemplary taxonomic motif -- Haussmannization, circulation, and the ideal city of Au bonheur des dames -- Convulsions, détraquement, and the circulus : Zola's dehystericisation of prostitution -- Beyond the pressure principle : bestialisation, anthropomorphism and the "thermodynamic" death instinct in naturalist fiction -- Maupassant, Doxa, and the banalisation of modern travel -- "Ce parasite supplémentaire."