This highly original interpretation of the novel of the French Classical age explores military strategy as a central metaphor in Rousseau's Julie and Emile, Laclos' Les Liaisons dangereuses, and Sade's Les 120 Journees de Sodome.
Originally published in 1984.
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Joan DeJean is a Trustee Professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of seven books, most recently "Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France" and "Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siecle", the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
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