Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales : Between Fact and Fiction.
Mulryan, Michael J.
Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales : Between Fact and Fiction. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (163 pages)
Intro -- CONTENTS -- A NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. A MODEL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RÉCITS D'ÉVASION: Odysseus's Flight from Polyphemus's Cave -- CHAPTER 2. THE "SLIPPERY EEL": Escape Episodes and Ideological Ambiguity in Eighteenth-Century Criminal Biographies-The Cases of Louis-Dominique Cartouche and John Sheppard -- CHAPTER 3. HAVING A CAGE IN HER HAND: Escaping Representations of the Comtesse de La Motte-Valois -- CHAPTER 4. DU PLAISIR DANS MA SOLITUDE: Finding Pleasure in the Prisons of Manon Lescaut -- CHAPTER 5. UTOPIA AS A PRISON: Escaping from the Land of Happiness in Tyssot de Patot's Les Voyages et Avantures de Jaques Massé -- CHAPTER 6. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS.
This volume is a study of the interdisciplinary nature of prison escape tales and their impact on European cultural identity in the eighteenth-century. Contemporary readers identified with the heroism such works promoted, because escape heroes most often define themselves via their confrontation with the arbitrary power of the sovereign, prefiguring the boldnessof the French Revolution.
9781611487718
Literature, Modern--18th century--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PN56.E72 -- .E344 2016eb
809.933556
Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales : Between Fact and Fiction. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (163 pages)
Intro -- CONTENTS -- A NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. A MODEL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RÉCITS D'ÉVASION: Odysseus's Flight from Polyphemus's Cave -- CHAPTER 2. THE "SLIPPERY EEL": Escape Episodes and Ideological Ambiguity in Eighteenth-Century Criminal Biographies-The Cases of Louis-Dominique Cartouche and John Sheppard -- CHAPTER 3. HAVING A CAGE IN HER HAND: Escaping Representations of the Comtesse de La Motte-Valois -- CHAPTER 4. DU PLAISIR DANS MA SOLITUDE: Finding Pleasure in the Prisons of Manon Lescaut -- CHAPTER 5. UTOPIA AS A PRISON: Escaping from the Land of Happiness in Tyssot de Patot's Les Voyages et Avantures de Jaques Massé -- CHAPTER 6. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS.
This volume is a study of the interdisciplinary nature of prison escape tales and their impact on European cultural identity in the eighteenth-century. Contemporary readers identified with the heroism such works promoted, because escape heroes most often define themselves via their confrontation with the arbitrary power of the sovereign, prefiguring the boldnessof the French Revolution.
9781611487718
Literature, Modern--18th century--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PN56.E72 -- .E344 2016eb
809.933556