Narrative, catastrophe and historicity in eighteenth-century French literature
Voltaire Foundation (Verlag)
978-1-80085-600-4 (ISBN)
Jessica Stacey is a Career Development Fellow in French at The Queen’s College, Oxford and has a PhD from King’s College London. Her research interests include catastrophe and time, civilisation and barbarism, story and community; she has also published on Antillean volcanoes and queer readings of Rousseau.
A Note on Translation
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Authors of Catastrophe
Chapter 1. Bringing Catastrophe: barbare (br)others, in and around the Encyclopédie
Chapter 2. Suffering Catastrophe: legitimate and illegitimate lines in Baculard d’Arnaud’s medievalist works
Chapter 3. Prophesying Catastrophe, Predicting Utopia: the time travellers of Mercier’s prose tableaux
Chapter 4. Witnessing Catastrophe as Revelation: doing time with Latude and Sade, modern martyrs
Conclusion
Works Cited
Erscheinungsdatum | 28.04.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment ; 2022:02 |
Zusatzinfo | 10 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | Liverpool |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-80085-600-8 / 1800856008 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-80085-600-4 / 9781800856004 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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