A casebook edition of the Diabolic tragedy critical essays and translation by Brian Russell Graham

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, Brian Russell, author, translator.

Series:

Mini-monographs in literary and cultural studies ; vol. 7

Mini-monographs in literary and cultural studies 2772-5464 volume 7

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Diabolique tragédie.

Literary forgeries and mystifications.

French literature--19th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Forgeries.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston Brill [2025]

Summary:

"This casebook edition comprises critical essays about and an English translation of La Diabolique Tragédie. Each essay is an example of what Peter Barry has called ‘Crisis Critique,’ the commentaries ranging from the psychoanalytical, to the feminist, the historicist and the religious. A ‘poème en prose’ dating from the start of the nineteenth century, La Diabolique Tragédie was first published in 2011. It was the work of a forger whose (unrealized) endgame was for the text to be presented to the public of the day as an authentic work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The critical essays represent a series of impressions of different types of literary critics, which – the author hopes – will prove a good match for the forger’s ‘mock Rousseau'"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Oedipus dreaming : a Kleinian reading of The Diabolic Tragedy / Professor S

The (Rousseauist) last man and the (Sadeian) last woman : terminal femininities in The Diabolic Tragedy / Professor J

The story Mme X should have told : a Neumannian perspective / Professor L

The Diabolic Tragedy as ‘Sado-Rousseauist’ myth / Professor Q

The enigma of The Diabolic Tragedy / Professor F

Through a basilisk, darkly; or, how to avoid being turned to stone by The Diabolic Tragedy

/ Professor A

The diabolic tragedy by Madame X / translated by Brian Russell Graham

A note on the text

The diabolic tragedy

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Brill, viewed July 2, 2025)

Contains:

Container of : Diabolique tragédie. English

Other Format:

Print version Graham, Brian Russell Casebook edition of the Diabolic tragedy

ISBN:

9789004720626

9004720626

OCLC:

1507696412

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