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The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : University of Delaware Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (197 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611495829
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French FictionDDC classification:
  • 843/.509
LOC classification:
  • PQ648.D395 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Reading Economic Behavior and Social Identity in Le Roman bourgeois and La Princesse de Clèves -- 2 Opposition and the Poetics of Noble Idealism in Manon Lescaut -- 3 Gift and Escrow Economies in Lettres d'une Péruvienne and La Nouvelle Héloïse -- 4 Les infortunes de la vertu: Homo Sadicus and the Invisible Hand of the Network -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: The Other Rise of the Novel relies on new research concerning the relevance of bourgeois values and ideals in the early modern period in France to question the extent to which characters in works of fiction portray the rise of individualistic and self-interested behavior.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Reading Economic Behavior and Social Identity in Le Roman bourgeois and La Princesse de Clèves -- 2 Opposition and the Poetics of Noble Idealism in Manon Lescaut -- 3 Gift and Escrow Economies in Lettres d'une Péruvienne and La Nouvelle Héloïse -- 4 Les infortunes de la vertu: Homo Sadicus and the Invisible Hand of the Network -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

The Other Rise of the Novel relies on new research concerning the relevance of bourgeois values and ideals in the early modern period in France to question the extent to which characters in works of fiction portray the rise of individualistic and self-interested behavior.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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