Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in French Series)
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This book analyzes the relationship between an emergent modern subjectivity in seventeenth-century French literature, particularly in dramatic works, and the contemporaneous evolution of the absolutist state. It shows how major writers of the Classical period (Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Lafayette) elaborate a new subject in and through their representations of the family, and argues that the family serves as the mediating locus of a patriarchal ideology...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:052103230X
ISBN13:9780521032308
Release Date:December 2006
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.72 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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