Overview
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.
- | Author: Mitchell Greenberg
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Sep 25, 1992
- | Number of Pages: 256 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521412935
- | ISBN-13: 9780521412933
