The Entrapments of Form : : Cruelty and Modern Literature / / Catherine Toal.
Arguing that cruelty acquires a new meaning in modernity, The Entrapments of Form follows its evolution through exchanges between French and American literature over the contradictions of Enlightenment (slavery, genocide, libertine aristocratic privilege). Catherine Toal traces Edgar Allan Poe'...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The "Strange and Familiar Word"
- Chapter One. The Forms of the Perverse
- Chapter Two. "Some Things Which Could Never Have Happened"
- Chapter Three. Murder and "Point of View"
- Chapter Four. The Marquis de Sade in the Twentieth Century
- Chapter Five. American Cruelty
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index