Identity and ideology : Diderot, Sade, and the serious genre / Julie Candler Hayes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayes, Julie Candler, 1955-

Series:

Purdue University monographs in Romance languages ; 35.

Purdue University monographs in Romance languages, 0165-8743 ; v. 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French drama--18th century--History and criticism.

French drama.

Domestic drama, French--History and criticism.

Domestic drama, French.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Middle class in literature.

Sentimentalism in literature.

Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784--Dramatic works.

Diderot, Denis.

Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814--Dramatic works.

Sade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.

Language Note:

English

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 o

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"": DISCOURSE 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-186) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-35865-4

9786613358653

90-272-7776-1

OCLC:

769342200