Literary Fortifications: Rousseau, Laclos, Sade

DeJean, Joan E

ISBN 10: 0691066116 / ISBN 13: 9780691066110

Published by Princeton University Press, 1984,, 1984

About this Item

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, xii,355pp, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper, not price-clipped. ISBN: 0691066116.

Seller Inventory # 230012

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Literary Fortifications: Rousseau, Laclos, Sade
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1984,
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691066116
• ISBN 13: 9780691066110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • literature

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Synopsis

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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About the Author

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.