The progressive poetics of confusion in the French Enlightenment / / John C. O'Neal.

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Place / Publishing House:Newark : : University of Delaware Press,, [2011]
2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (238 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • The subversive use of confusion in Marivaux's theater
  • Cultivating the reader's critical mind in Crebillon's Les egarements du coeur et de l'esprit
  • Telling, reading (or listening), and knowing : interpolated narrative in Voltaire and Diderot
  • Diderot and the Enlightenment's poetics of confusion in the Lettre sur les aveugles
  • Blurring the boundaries between mind and body : Rousseau and the philosophes on the soul
  • Society's confusion in the Lettre a d'Alembert sur les spectacles and the question of Rousseau's modernity
  • Gender confusion
  • Understanding and interpreting confusion : Philippe Pinel and the invention of psychiatry
  • Sade's Justine : a response to the Enlightenment's poetics of confusion.