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 of sexual and political containment. Professor Greenberg argues that this reflects the conflicting social, political and economic forces that were shifting European society away from the universe of the Renaissance and guiding it toward the transparency of Classical representation.
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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