1st Edition

Regressive Fictions

By Robin Howells Copyright 2007
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

In a cultural shift around the mid-point of the French eighteenth century, the mode of wit is increasingly displaced by bourgeois pathos. Social sophistication and sexual experience are rejected in favour of a retreat into ideal imagination. Instead of the novel of worldliness, we encounter fictions of better worlds: original, natural, familial, innocent and harmonious, protected against reality... Read more

Introduction and Argument 1 Lettres d’une Péruvienne: Progressive and Regressive 2 Julie, ou La Nouvelle Héloïse: A New World 3 Paul et Virginie: Reintegration, Conclusion

Biography

Robin Howells