Seducing the Eighteenth-Century French Reader
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Choderlos De Laclos
cultural discourse
dangereuses
dangers of novel reading
De Sodome
Des Grieux
Eighteenth Century France
Eighteenth Century French
Eighteenth Century French Culture
Eighteenth Century French Literature
Eighteenth Century French Readers
Eighteenth Century Reader
eighteenth-century novels
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Julie's Death
Julie’s Death
La Mettrie
La Nouvelle
La Philosophie
laffont
Le Sueur
les
lescaut
liaisons
libertine literature
Libertine Texts
literary seduction theory
literature
manon
Manon Lescaut
Marquise De Merteuil
Petite Maison
Raymond Trousson
Restif De La Bretonne
robert
Rousseau Sade Laclos analysis
Sade's Writing
sadean
Sadean Text
Sade’s Writing
Saint Preux's Letter
Saint Preux’s Letter
solitary reading
text
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780754664178
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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As he demonstrates that narratives of seduction function as a master plot for French literature in the eighteenth century, Paul Young argues that the prevalence of this trope was a reaction to a dominant cultural discourse that coded the novel and the new practice of solitary reading as dangerous, seductive practices. Situating his study in the context of paintings, educational manuals, and criticism that caution against the act of reading, Young considers both canonical and lesser-known works by authors that include Rousseau, Sade, Bastide, Laclos, Crébillon fils, and the writers of two widely read libertine novels. How these authors responded to a cultural climate that viewed literature, and especially the novel, as seductive, sheds light on the perils and pleasures of authorship, the ways in which texts interact with the larger cultural discourse, and what eighteenth-century texts tell us about the dangers of reading or writing. Ultimately, Young argues, the seduction not in the text, but by the text raises questions about the nature of pleasure in eighteenth-century French literature and culture.
Paul J. Young is assistant professor of French at Georgetown University, USA
