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Seducing the Eighteenth-Century French Reader: Reading, Writing, and the Question of Pleasure Paul J. Young New edition
Seducing the Eighteenth-Century French Reader: Reading, Writing, and the Question of Pleasure
Paul J. Young
Demonstrating that narratives of seduction as a master plot for French literature in the eighteenth century, this study argues that the prevalence of this trope was a reaction to a dominant cultural discourse that coded the novel and the new practice of solitary reading as dangerous, seductive practices.
200 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 8, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780754664178 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 174 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 234 × 11 mm · 453 g |
| Language | English |