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The place of exile: leisure literature and the limits of absolutism

Book information

Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0838756034, 9780838756034
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13404649 bytes)
Series
Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
Pages
282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm\282
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

"The Place of Exile is a study of the margins, whether real or imagined, of absolutist culture in seventeenth-century France. Juliette Cherbuliez follows the novel and related genres through an ever-widening territory of disaffection from the center of absolutism at Louis XIV's first court to Europe's international communities of refugees. The Place of Exile explores the effects of exclusion on literary creation at its symbolic, narrative, and material levels."--Jacket. Introduction : Louis XIV's masterpiece : the romance of exile -- 1. Diversions : Montpensier's exile communities -- 2. Detours : Ovidian fantasies of community and Villedieu's Les Exilez de la Cour d'Auguste -- 3. Periphery : Zayde and the domestic conquest of the nation -- 4. Diaspora : Francophone refugee fiction from Hortense Mancini to Anne de La Roche-Guilhen -- Epilogue : the return of place.

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