The other rise of the novel in eighteenth-century French fiction / Olivier Delers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delers, Olivier, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

French fiction.

Social classes in literature.

Middle class in literature.

Literature and society--France--History--18th century.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Other Rise of the Novel relies on new research concerning the relevance of bourgeois values and ideals in the early modern period in France to question the extent to which characters in works of fiction portray the rise of individualistic and self-interested behavior. It argues that novels like Manon Lescaut, Lettres d'une Péruvienne, and La Nouvelle Héloïse produce their own alternative economies, different articulations of how individuals should define their relations to others.

Contents:

Introduction: writing the rise of the French novel. Reading economic behavior and social identity in Le roman bourgeois and La princesse de Cleves

Opposition and the poetics of noble idealism in Manon Lescaut

Gift and escrow economies in Lettres d'une Peruvienne and La nouvelle Heloise

Les infortunes de la vertu: homo sadicus and the invisible hand of the network

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61149-582-2