Revolutionary Love In Eighteenth And Early Nineteenth Century France
Download Revolutionary Love In Eighteenth And Early Nineteenth Century France full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Revolutionary Love In Eighteenth And Early Nineteenth Century France ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Revolutionary Love in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century France
Author | : Allan H. Pasco |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351903284 |
Download Revolutionary Love in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century France Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this innovative study, the author carves out a new field, a sociology of literature in which he offers insightful commentary about the nexus of literature and society. Calling on history, sociology, and psychology as well as literature as points of reference, Allan Pasco examines the conceptual shift in the ideal of love in eighteenth-century France. Pasco explores the radical, though gradual, changes that occurred during the Enlightenment with respect to how the emotion of love was viewed. Earlier, love had been subordinate to the demands of family, king, and deity; passion was dangerous, and to be avoided. But over time, individual happiness became the "greatest good," and passion the measure of love. Authors as diverse as Marivaux, Marmontel, Rousseau, Baculard d'Arnaud, Pigault-Lebrun and Madame de Staƫl make it clear that the ideal of rapturous love did not live up to its billing: it did not last, and it brought destructive fantasies, an epidemic of disease, the "scourge" of divorce, and considerable anguish. Still, as Pasco points out, passion became and remained the ideal, and the Romantics were left to plumb its nature.
Revolutionary Love in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century France Related Books
Pages: 343
Pages: 241
Pages: 610
Pages: 475
Pages: 246