Queering the Enlightenment : kinship and gender in eighteenth-century French literature / Tracy L. Rutler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rutler, Tracy L., author.

Series:

Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2634-8047 2021:11.

Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 2634-8047 ; 2021:11

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763.

Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de, 1688-1763.

Grafigny, Mme de (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), 1695-1758.

Crébillon, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de, 1707-1777.

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

French literature.

Enlightenment--France.

Enlightenment.

Criticism and interpretation.

Gender identity--Social aspects.

Gender identity.

France.

Families in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Crébillon, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de, 1707-1777--Criticism and interpretation.

Crébillon, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de.

Grafigny, Mme de (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), 1695-1758--Criticism and interpretation.

Grafigny.

Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de, 1688-1763--Criticism and interpretation.

Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de.

Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763--Criticism and interpretation.

Prévost.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxi, 291 pages : 2 illustrations ; 24 cm.

Manufacture:

Padstow, Cornwall : Printed by TJ International Ltd.

Place of Publication:

[Liverpool, United Kingdom] : Liverpool University Press ; Oxford, UK : On behalf of Voltaire Foundation, [2021]

Language Note:

Includes quotations in French, with English translation.

Summary:

"Liminal periods in politics often serve as points in time when traditional methods and principles organizing society are disrupted. These periods of interregnum may not always result in complete social upheaval, but they do open the space to imagine social and political change in diverse forms. In 'Queering the Enlightenment: kinship and gender in eighteenth-century French literature', Tracy L. Rutler uncovers how numerous canonical authors of the 1730s and 1740s were imagining radically different ways of organizing the masses during the early years of Louis XV's reign. Through studies of the literature of Antoine-François Prévost, Claude Crébillon, Pierre de Marivaux, and Françoise de Graffigny among others, Rutler demonstrates how the heteronormative bourgeois family's rise to dominance in late-eighteenth-century France had long been contested within the fictional worlds of many French authors. The utopian impulses guiding the fiction studied in this book distinguish these authors as some of the most brilliant political theorists of the day. Enlightenment, for these authors, means reorienting one's relation to power by reorganizing their most intimate relations. Using a practice of reading queerly, Rutler shows how these works illuminate the unparalleled potential of queer forms of kinship to dismantle the patriarchy and help us imagine what might eventually take its place."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781800859807

1800859805

OCLC:

1240771579