The sublime crime : fascination, failure, and form in literature of the Enlightenment /

"In this hermeneutic analysis of seven literary texts, Stephanie Barbe Hammer studies the roles of criminal protagonists in the dramas of George Lillo (The London Merchant) and Friedrich Schiller (The Robbers) and in the narratives of Abbe de Prevost (Manon Lescaut), Henry Fielding (Jonathan Wi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hammer, Stephanie Barbé
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1994.
Temas:
1700-1799
Literature, Modern > 18th century > History and criticism.
Crime in literature.
Enlightenment.
Littérature > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Criminalité dans la littérature.
Siècle des Lumières.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literature, Modern.
Criminaliteit.
Bellettrie.
Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Languages & Literatures.
Literature - General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: Hermeneutics, the Eighteenth Century, and the Challenge of Criminal Literature
  • 2. Economy and Extravagance: Criminal Origin in Lillo's London Merchant and Prevost's Manon Lescaut
  • 3. Greatness, Criminality, and Masculinity: Subversive Celebration and the Failure of Satire in Fielding's Jonathan Wild
  • 4. Criminal Kin: Gendered Tragedy, Subversion of Inversion, and the Fear of the Feminine in Schiller's Robbers and Sade's Justine
  • 5. The Tyranny of Form: Defense, Romance, and the Pursuit of the Criminal Text in Godwin's Caleb Williams and Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas
  • 6. Conclusion: Resistance, Metaphysics and the Aesthetics of Failure in Modern Criminal Literature.

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