TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mulryan,Michael J.
AU  - Grélé,Denis D.
AU  - Bloom,Rori
AU  - Lebourg-Leportier,Léa
AU  - Trevien,Claire
TI  - Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales: Between Fact and Fiction
SN  - 9781611487718
AV  - PN56.E72 -- .E344 2016eb 
U1  - 809.933556 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Bucknell University Press
KW  - Literature, Modern--18th century--History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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