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1 online resource (201 pages) |
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Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages ; Vol. 35 |
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Purdue University monographs in Romance languages ; vol. 35.
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| Contents |
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"": DISCOURS 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 |
| Summary |
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" practitioners share a new approach to personal identity as relational and derived from the workings of the social network - a notion of gr |
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Print version record |
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Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784 -- Dramatic works
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Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814 -- Dramatic works
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Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784. fast (OCoLC)fst00039603 |
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Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814. fast (OCoLC)fst00048709 |
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French drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Domestic drama, French -- History and criticism
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Middle class in literature.
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Sentimentalism in literature.
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Criticism and interpretation.
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Domestic drama, French.
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French drama.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Middle class in literature.
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Sentimentalism in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789027277763 |
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9027277761 |
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1283358654 |
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9781283358651 |
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9789027217554 |
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9027217556 |
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