Title Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760-1820

Published Cambridge, GBR : Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (298 pages) Series Cambridge Studies in French ; v. 47 Cambridge studies in French ; 47 Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements ; Note on spelling ; Introduction: the politics of tears ; 1 Three sentimental writers ; BAGULARD D' ARNAUD; JEAN-CLAUDE GORJY (1753-95); FRANÇOIS VERNES; 2 Towards a model of the sentimental text ; 3 Love and money: social hierarchy in the sentimental text ; LOVE; MONEY 4 Sentimentalism in the rhetoric of the Revolution 5 Sentimentalism and idéologic; 6 Beyond sentimentalism? Madame de Staël; DELPHINE; CORINNE; Conclusions ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index Analysis French literature History, 1715-1848 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Crying in literature. Emotions in literature. French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature and society -- France -- History. Narration (Rhetoric) Politics and literature -- France -- History. Sentimentalism in literature. Social classes in literature. Tears in literature. Form Electronic book ISBN 0511519494 9780511519499

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