Images of the Crowd in Nineteenth-Century Novels Using Examples From Stendhal, Hugo, Flaubert, Vallès, and Zola
While images of the crowd in novels are characterized by the particular ideological, semiotic, and stylistic contribution specific to the work within which they are framed, it is nevertheless possible to group together salient iterations of crowds in nineteenth-century novels in order to examine what defines them as a set testifying to a state of historically and socially marked French literary production.