Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760–1820
Part of Cambridge Studies in French
- Author: David J. Denby, Dublin City University
- Date Published: April 2006
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521025720
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In this interdisciplinary study of sentimental discourse of the late eighteenth century, David J. Denby sheds new light on Enlightenment thought and sensibility. He situates sentimental subliterature in its social and political context, analyzing how its formal structures are reflected in contemporary theories and texts concerning society, morality, politics, and history. Denby argues that sentimentalism is central to the culture of late-eighteenth-century France. Texts discussed include works by Rousseau and de Staël.
Read more- First book in English on French sentimentalism and its relation to contemporary social and political attitudes
- Interdisciplinary study of literary, social and political trends spanning the period before and after the French Revolution
- Includes study of texts by Rousseau, de Staël, among others
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- Date Published: April 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521025720
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 139 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.396kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on spelling
Introduction: the politics of tears
1. Three sentimental writers
2. Towards a model of the sentimental text
3. Love and money: social hierarchy in the sentimental text
4. Sentimentalism in the rhetoric of the Revolution
5. Sentimentalism and idéologie
6. Beyond sentimentalism? Madame de Staël
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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