Romantic Prison
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Aeschylus
Anguish
Antithesis
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Camille Desmoulins
Candide
Capital punishment
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Charles Baudelaire
Claude Gueux
Cloister
Cruelty
De Profundis (letter)
Despotism
Dieu
Enfant terrible
Enfer
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Evocation
Existentialism
Felix culpa
Flagellation
Georges Poulet
Gilles de Rais
God Knows (novel)
Good and evil
Hatred
Homo duplex
Horace Walpole
Immurement
Impossibility
Imprisonment
In a Glass Cage
Infanticide
Internment
Irony
Javert
Jean Cayrol
Jean Genet
Jean Valjean
Jean-Paul Sartre
La Fin de Satan
Literature
Man in the Iron Mask
Marquis de Sade
Narcissism
Notes from Underground
Novel
Of Human Bondage
On Crimes and Punishments
Orwellian
Parody
Penology
Poetry
Politique
Prison cell
Prison slang
Promiscuity
Romanticism
Sensationalism
Silvio Pellico
Sisyphus
Solipsism
Spirituality
Stendhal
Superiority (short story)
The Plague
Torture
Victor Hugo
Victorien Sardou
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691609713
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"Prison haunts our civilization," writes Victor Brombert. "Object of fear, it is also a subject of poetic reverie." Focusing on French literature of the Romantic era, the author probes the manifold significance of imprisonment as symbol and metaphor of the human condition. His thematic exploration draws on a constellation of writers ranging from the Platonic and Christian traditions to the Existentialist generation. Professor Brombert points out that nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature endowed the prison image with unusual prestige, and he examines the historical and social reasons. After considering the influence of Pascal and of the myth of the Bastille, he closely analyzes the work of Borel, Stendhal, Victor Hugo, Nerval, Baudelaire, Huysmans, and Sartre, with excursions into texts by Byron, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Solzhenitsyn, Sade, and others. His approach reflects a concern with the interaction of literature, historiography, and popular myth. This imaginative treatment deepens our understanding of Romanticism and its favored themes.
It offers fresh thoughts as well about modern man's dialectical tensions between oppression and inner freedom, fate and revolt, and the awareness of the finite and the longing for infinity. A wide-ranging conclusion speculates about the future of the prison theme in a world that has been threatened by extermination camps. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
