Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions

Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions
Author :
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 412
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780804765800
ISBN-13 : 0804765804
Rating : 4/5 (804 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions by : Thomas DiPiero

Download or read book Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions written by Thomas DiPiero and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges several traditional assumptions about the development of the French novel, notably that the novel is a bourgeois art form that rose and flourished along with the rise of the bourgeoisie; and that the novels of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were inevitable stepping stones on the road to the apotheosis of realism realized in the novels of Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola. Instead, the author argues that the early French novel articulated the French aristocracy's claims to natural ascendancy against an encroaching middle class. But like any other literary form, the novel produces and is a product of ideology, and it reveals the contradictions lying beneath the surface of an apparently seamless social structure. After the death of Louis XIV and the resulting social and political redefinition of the aristocracy, the ideological rifts in the novel's form enabled it to shift its class affiliations with the changing times. French cultural life was increasingly tinged with values determined by new configurations in the control and transmission of property, including new constraints on women's sexual behavior. Fiction that claimed for itself a rightful place in the real world began to appear. As it had during the seventeenth century, fiction continued to negotiate complex social contradictions and label as malevolent any person or group that seemed to threaten social order, notably the immoderate woman who flouted traditional conceptions of virtue and threatened to read the social fabric. This new account of the rise of the French novel is enriched throughout by close readings of both well-known and obscure novels, including d'Urfe;'s L'Astre;e, Gomberville's Polexandre, Furetière's Le Roman bourgeois, Pre;vost's Manon Lescaut, Diderot's La Religieuse, and Sade's Justine.


Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions Related Books

Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions
Language: en
Pages: 412
Authors: Thomas DiPiero
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-07-01 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book challenges several traditional assumptions about the development of the French novel, notably that the novel is a bourgeois art form that rose and flo
The Danger of Romance
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Karen Sullivan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-07 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flo
White Men Aren't
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Thomas DiPiero
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-09-09 - Publisher: Duke University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

DIVA critical psychoanalytic account of white masculinity, which argues that it is incorrect to naturalize the power of masculinity and offers an alternative ac
The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 197
Authors: Olivier Delers
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-01 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The rise of the novel paradigm—and the underlying homology between the rise of a bourgeois middle class and the coming of age of a new literary genre—contin
The Cambridge History of the Novel in French
Language: en
Pages: 848
Authors: Adam Watt
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This History is the first in a century to trace the development and impact of the novel in French from its beginnings to the present. Leading specialists explor