Author: DiPiero, Thomas
Title: Dangerous Truths & Criminal Passions: The Evolution of the French Novel, 1569-1791
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1992. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, viii, 401 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The Constructon of a Genre: The Rise of Aristocratic Fiction; The Ideology of Realism in the Early 17th Century; Polexandre & the Politics of Heroic Fiction; The Alienation & Commodification of the Novel; The Development of the Modern Novel: Le Roman bourgeois & the Modern Novel;A Discourse of One's Own: La Princesse de Clèves; Mastery & Seduction in 1 8th-Century Fiction; "Burn the Letter!": La Religieuse; Justice & Discourse of the (Other) Master; Afterword.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, French Literature, Fiction, Novel, , , , ,