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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154608403321

Autore

Young Paul J.

Titolo

Seducing the eighteenth-century French reader : reading, writing, and the question of pleasure / / Paul J. Young

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-90136-2

1-315-24354-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 pages)

Disciplina

840.9/005

Soggetti

French literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Reading, writing, and seduction -- 2. Moving beyond pleasure : writing (in) the libertine novel -- 3. Looking inside : the ambiguous interiors of La petite maison -- 4. Seducing the reader? Perversion and disruption in La nouvelle Heloise -- 5. When excess isn't enough : secrets and silences in the Sadean text.