Regressive Fictions
In a cultural shift around the mid-point of the French eighteenth century, the mode of wit is increasingly displaced by bourgeois pathos. Social sophistication and sexual experience are rejected in favour of a retreat into ideal imagination. Instead of the novel of worldliness, we encounter fictions of better worlds: original, natural, familial, innocent and harmonious, protected against reality and time. The regressive shift is traced in this study in general terms, and then through detailed analysis of three of the best-selling novels of the period. The turning-point is represented by Mme de Graffignys Lettres dune Peruvienne (1747, 1752) w…
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- ISBN: 978-1-904350-86-6
- EAN: 9781904350866
- Produktnummer: 26585822
- Verlag: Maney Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 148 S.
- Masse: H24.5 cm x B17.0 cm x D0.0 cm 476 g
- Gewicht: 476
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
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Robin Howells
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