Regressive Fictions

by Robin Howells

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 and time. The regressive shift is traced in this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367604221
• ISBN13: 9780367604226
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.6"