Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose

by Mitchell Greenberg

Book Overview

This book analyzes the relationship between an emergent modern subjectivity in seventeenth-century French literature, particularly in dramatic works, and the contemporaneous evolution of the absolutist state. It shows how major writers of the Classical period (Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Lafayette) elaborate a new subject in and through their representations of the family, and argues that the family serves as the mediating locus of a patriarchal ideology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052103230X
• ISBN13: 9780521032308
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"