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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820113003321

Autore

Hayes Julie Candler <1955->

Titolo

Identity and ideology : Diderot, Sade, and the serious genre / / Julie Candler Hayes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1991

ISBN

1-283-35865-4

9786613358653

90-272-7776-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 pages)

Collana

Purdue University monographs in Romance languages, , 0165-8743 ; ; v. 35

Disciplina

842/.509

Soggetti

French drama - 18th century - History and criticism

Domestic drama, French - History and criticism

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Middle class in literature

Sentimentalism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-186) and index.

Nota di contenuto

IDENTITY AND IDEOLOGY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works; 1. Of Sensibility and Sociability; 2. Diderot; ""UNE ESPECE DE ROMAN"": LE FILS NATUREL; ""LE BEAU SUJET"": LE PERE DE FAMILLE; ""LA PIERRE A AIGUISER"": DISCOURSE SUR LA POESIE DRAMATIQUE; 3. The Equivocal Genre: Bourgeois Drama and the Critics; 4. Sade; ""CE SERAIT POUR MOI UN GRAND PLAISIR ... DE VOIR JOUER MES OUVRAGES"": PLAYS; 5. Conclusions; Appendix Plot Summaries; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The bourgeois drama of ""serious genre"" was one of the major innovative literary forms of the French Enlightenment, but it has been largely excluded from the canon today. In a study drawing on contemporary and 18th-century literary theory and philosophy, social history and history of the theatre, Hayes presents a reading of the dramas of Diderot and Sade and argues for a new understanding of the genre as a whole. A disparate group as they were, the ""drame's""



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