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Author:

Delers, Olivier, 1977- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Delaware Press ;

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

vii, 187 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

French fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
Social classes in literature.
Middle class in literature.
Literature and society--France--History--18th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

1611495814
9781611495812

OCLC:

(OCoLC)910856150

LCCN:

2015020366

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)