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Through strangers' eyes : fictional foreigners in old regime France /
"In the eighteenth century, a type of novel flourished showing naive outsiders who come to Europe and are amazed at what they see. Foreign travelers first set foot in Europe in the sixteenth century and are memorably present in Montaigne's essay "Des Cannibales" (1580). The genre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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West Lafayette, Indiana :
Purdue University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Purdue studies in Romance literatures ;
v. 33. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In the eighteenth century, a type of novel flourished showing naive outsiders who come to Europe and are amazed at what they see. Foreign travelers first set foot in Europe in the sixteenth century and are memorably present in Montaigne's essay "Des Cannibales" (1580). The genre was made popular in France by Montesquieu's novel Lettres persanes (1721)." "Considering the "stranger" as a figure of ambiguity, Sylvie Romanowski explains why the genre was so useful to the Enlightenment. The question of why showing ambiguous strangers is important in that period is addressed in the book's introduction by setting the Enlightenment in the historical context of the seventeenth century. Romanowski then examines Montaigne's "Des Cannibales," showing how these first "outsiders" relate to their eighteenth-century successors. She next considers Montesquieu's Lettres persanes in its entirety, studying the voices of the men, the women, and the eunuchs. She also studies other examples of the genre."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-251) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429461474 1429461470 9781612490823 1612490824 1557534063 9781557534064 |