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The Novel's Seductions. Staehl's Corinne in Critical Inquiry.
Karyna . Ed(S): Szmurlo
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Hardback. Editor(s): Szmurlo, Karyna. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 171 x 22. Weight in Grams: 631.
Were the strength of a literary work measured by its impact on the reader, Corinne, or Italy would qualify as one among the most effective of texts, to judge by the intensity of the responses it has produced. Positing feminine transcendence through art as a counterdiscourse to the militaristic expansionism of Napoleon, the novel was acclaimed as a revolutionary act at the time of its first publication. Despite the hostility of patriarchal criticism that targeted the novel's literary value, Corinne was published in more than forty editions between 1807 and 1872. More recently, it has given rise to a fresh ... Read more
Were the strength of a literary work measured by its impact on the reader, Corinne, or Italy would qualify as one among the most effective of texts, to judge by the intensity of the responses it has produced. Positing feminine transcendence through art as a counterdiscourse to the militaristic expansionism of Napoleon, the novel was acclaimed as a revolutionary act at the time of its first publication. Despite the hostility of patriarchal criticism that targeted the novel's literary value, Corinne was published in more than forty editions between 1807 and 1872. More recently, it has given rise to a fresh ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611480894
SKU
V9781611480894
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99-15
About Karyna . Ed(S): Szmurlo
Karyna Szmurlo, Professor of French in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities at Clemson University, is coeditor of Germaine de Staël: Crossing the Borders, published in 1991 by Rutgers University Press.
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