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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811883803321

Autore

Delers Olivier <1977->

Titolo

The other rise of the novel in eighteenth-century French fiction / / Olivier Delers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark, DE : , : University of Delaware Press

Lanham : , : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-61149-582-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Disciplina

843.5

Soggetti

French fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

Social classes in literature

Middle class in literature

Literature and society - France - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: writing the rise of the French novel. Reading economic behavior and social identity in Le roman bourgeois and La princesse de Cleves -- Opposition and the poetics of noble idealism in Manon Lescaut -- Gift and escrow economies in Lettres d'une Peruvienne and La nouvelle Heloise -- Les infortunes de la vertu: homo sadicus and the invisible hand of the network -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

The Other Rise of the Novel relies on new research concerning the relevance of bourgeois values and ideals in the early modern period in France to question the extent to which characters in works of fiction portray the rise of individualistic and self-interested behavior. It argues that novels like Manon Lescaut, Lettres d'une Péruvienne, and La Nouvelle Héloïse produce their own alternative economies, different articulations of how individuals should define their relations to others.