Rococo Fiction in France, 1600-1715
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Rococo Fiction in France, 1600-1715 by Allison Stedman
Author Allison Stedman makes a case for the rococo as a seventeenth-century literary phenomenon that provided an ideological counterpoint to the rise of French political absolutism. Stedman traces the rococo's evolution and the study unearths the rococo's counter-vision for the origins of the French Enlightenment.
This thought- provoking study aims to rehabilitate a branch of French prose writing that has been traditionally overlooked or treated with disdain. . .By showing that the rococo coexisted with classicisme, maintaining a dialectical relationship to the cultural mainstream rather than simply coming to prominence in the following century, she sheds new light on the process whereby new ways of thinking gradually emerged and won acceptance. * French Forum *
Much of the imaginative literature published in seventeenth-century France eludes easy categorization into standard generic rubrics. Compilations of novellas, often interspersed with poetry, dialogues, treatises, letters, fairy tales, and other kinds of texts too numerous to list, made up a significant portion of the period’s creative literary output. Allison Stedman’s ambitious, thought-provoking book shines a light on these ‘generically hybrid literary creations’ and demonstrates their aesthetic value and social productivity. * Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures *
Much of the imaginative literature published in seventeenth-century France eludes easy categorization into standard generic rubrics. Compilations of novellas, often interspersed with poetry, dialogues, treatises, letters, fairy tales, and other kinds of texts too numerous to list, made up a significant portion of the period’s creative literary output. Allison Stedman’s ambitious, thought-provoking book shines a light on these ‘generically hybrid literary creations’ and demonstrates their aesthetic value and social productivity. * Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures *
Allison Stedman is associate professor of French at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She has published articles on early modern French literary portraits, psalm paraphrases, novels, and fairy tales, as well as on pedagogical strategies for teaching French and Italian literature and culture at the university level. With Perry Gethner, she is the co-editor and translator of A Trip tothe Country by Henriette-Julie de Castelnau,Comtesse de Murat.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781611485912 |
| ISBN 10 | 1611485916 |
| Title | Rococo Fiction in France, 1600-1715 |
| Author | Allison Stedman |
| Series | Transits: Literature Thought And Culture 1650 1850 Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
| Year published | 2014-06-15 |
| Number of pages | 258 |
| Prizes | Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles 2013. |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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