Eighteenth Century Escape Tales
Download Eighteenth Century Escape Tales full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Eighteenth Century Escape Tales ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales
Author | : Michael J. Mulryan |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2016-07-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1611487714 |
Download Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume is a study of the interdisciplinary nature of prison escape tales and their impact on European cultural identity in the eighteenth century. Prison escape narratives are reflections of the tension between the individual’s potential happiness via freedom and the confines of the social order. Contemporary readers identified with the prisoner, who, like them suffered the injustices of an absolutist regime. The state imprisons such renegades not just out of a desire to protect the public but more importantly to protect the state itself. Hence, prison escape tales can be linked with a revolutionary tendency: when free, such former detainees equipped with a pen openly and justly challenge the status quo, hoping to inspire their readers to do the same. Escape tales have had a considerable impact on cultural identity, because they embody the interdependent relationship between literature and myth on the one hand and literature and history on the other.
Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales Related Books
Pages: 163
Pages: 132
Pages: 287
Pages: 269
Pages: 145