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Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose

Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose

Greenberg, Mitchell

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Series: Cambridge Studies in French, Book 36

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ISBN10: 0521412935
ISBN13: 9780521412933
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Sep 25 1992
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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