Analytical Studies

Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781776539703
• Edition: 0

This section of The Human Comdedy, the multi-volume series of stories, tales, and essays that comprised most Honore de Balzac's life's work, focuses on love and marriage as they existed in early nineteenth-century Europe. An eclectic collection of essays, satirical observations, short tales, and character sketches, this unique excerpt is an interesting introduction to Balzac's writing.

Table of contents

• Title
• Contents
• Dedication
• Introduction
• THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MARRIAGE
• Introduction
• FIRST PART - A GENERAL CONSIDERATION
• Meditation I - The Subject
• Meditation II - Marriage Statistics
• Meditation III - Of the Honest Woman
• Meditation IV - Of the Virtuous Woman
• Meditation V - Of the Predestined
• Meditation VI - Of Boarding Schools
• Meditation VII - Of the Honeymoon
• Meditation VIII - Of the First Symptoms
• Meditation IX - Epilogue
• SECOND PART - MEANS OF DEFENCE, INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR
• Meditation X - A Treatise on Marital Policy
• Meditation XI - Instruction in the Home
• Meditation XII - The Hygiene of Marriage
• Meditation XIII - Of Personal Measures
• Meditation XIV - Of Apartments
• Meditation XV - Of the Custom House
• Meditation XVI - The Charter of Marriage
• Meditation XVII - The Theory of the Bed
• Meditation XVIII - Of Marital Revolutions
• Meditation XIX - Of the Lover
• Meditation XX - Essay on Police
• Meditation XXI - The Art of Returning Home
• Meditation XXII - Of Catastrophes
• THIRD PART - RELATING TO CIVIL WAR
• Meditation XXIII - Of Manifestoes
• Meditation XXIV - Principles of Strategy
• Meditation XXV - Of Allies
• Meditation XXVI - Of Different Weapons
• Meditation XXVII - Of the Last Symptoms
• Meditation XXVIII - Of Compensations
• Meditation XXIX - Of Conjugal Peace
• Meditation XXX - Conclusion
• Postscript
• PETTY TROUBLES OF MARRIED LIFE
• PART FIRST
• Preface
• The Unkindest Cut of All
• Revelations
• Axioms
• The Attentions of a Wife
• Small Vexations
• The Ultimatum
• Women's Logic
• The Jesuitism of Women
• Memories and Regrets
• Observations
• The Matrimonial Gadfly
• Hard Labor
• Forced Smiles
• Nosography of the Villa
• Trouble Within Trouble
• A Household Revolution
• The Art of Being a Victim
• The French Campaign
• A Solo on the Hearse
• PART SECOND
• Preface
• Husbands During the Second Month
• Disappointed Ambition
• The Pangs of Innocence
• The Universal Amadis
• Without an Occupation
• Indiscretions
• Brutal Disclosures
• A Truce
• Useless Care
• Smoke Without Fire
• The Domestic Tyrant
• The Avowal
• Humiliations
• The Last Quarrel
• A Signal Failure
• The Chestnuts in the Fire
• Ultima Ratio
• Commentary
• Endnotes