Literature

Balzac’s Capitalism: Money, Passions, and Morality in “Père Goriot”

ABSTRACT

Conferees discussed the characteristics of French capitalism, one of the central powers in the century of liberalism, through the eyes of Balzac as depicted in Père Goriot.

READING LIST

Conference Readings

Balzac, Honoré de. Père Goriot. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.