Revolutionary Love in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century France
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Collin De Plancy
Des Grieux
divorce
divorce in historical context
Du Divorce
Du Nord
Early Nineteenth Century France
Emf
Enlightenment thought
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French Romanticism
Histoire De La France Urbain
jean-claude
Le Divorce
Leprince De Beaumont
les
Les Amours
Lettre De Cachet
madame
Madame De
Madame De Maintenon
Madame Leprince De Beaumont
Madame Necker
Madelyn Gutwirth
Maurice Daumas
mercure
Mercure De France
Nicolas Edme Restif De La Bretonne
palais
passion and individualism
PUF
Restif De La Bretonne
royal
social history of emotions
sociology of literature
Tableau De Paris
transformation of love ideals in France
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780754656104
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this innovative study, the author carves out a new field, a sociology of literature in which he offers insightful commentary about the nexus of literature and society. Calling on history, sociology, and psychology as well as literature as points of reference, Allan Pasco examines the conceptual shift in the ideal of love in eighteenth-century France. Pasco explores the radical, though gradual, changes that occurred during the Enlightenment with respect to how the emotion of love was viewed. Earlier, love had been subordinate to the demands of family, king, and deity; passion was dangerous, and to be avoided. But over time, individual happiness became the "greatest good," and passion the measure of love. Authors as diverse as Marivaux, Marmontel, Rousseau, Baculard d'Arnaud, Pigault-Lebrun and Madame de Staël make it clear that the ideal of rapturous love did not live up to its billing: it did not last, and it brought destructive fantasies, an epidemic of disease, the "scourge" of divorce, and considerable anguish. Still, as Pasco points out, passion became and remained the ideal, and the Romantics were left to plumb its nature.
Allan H. Pasco is a Hall Professor at the University of Kansas, USA. He has published eight books and studies on French literature intersecting with society and history. Most recently, he traced Romanticism to dysfunctional families.
