Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales
Between Fact and Fiction
This volume is a study of the interdisciplinary nature of prison escape tales and their impact on European cultural identity in the eighteenth century. Prison escape narratives are reflections of the tension between the individual's potential happiness via freedom and the confines of the social order. Contemporary readers identified with the prisoner, who, like them suffered the injustices of an absolutist regime. The state imprisons such renegades not just out of a desire to protect the public but more importantly to protect the state itself. Hence, prison escape tales can be linked with a revolutionary tendency: when free, such former detai…
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Weitere Autoren: Grélé, Denis D. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-61148-771-8
- EAN: 9781611487718
- Produktnummer: 22070828
- Verlag: Bucknell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 8'393 KB
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Edited by Michael J. Mulryan and Denis D. Grélé - Contributions by Rori Bloom; Léa Lebourg-Leportier and Claire...
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