num_pages: 256
description: This book analyzes the relationship between an emergent modern subjectivity in seventeenth-century French literature, particularly in dramatic works, and the contemporaneous evolution of the absolutist state. It shows how major writers of the Classical period (Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Lafayette) elaborate a new subject in and through their representations of the family, and argues that the family serves as the mediating locus of a patriarchal ideology of sexual and political containment. Professor Greenberg argues that this reflects the conflicting social, political and economic forces that were shifting European society away from the universe of the Renaissance and guiding it toward the "transparency" of Classical representation.
language: English
title: Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose: The Family Romance of French Classicism
titlecomplete: Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose: The Family Romance of French Classicism (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 36)
ratings_count: 1
series: Cambridge Studies in French
publisher: Cambridge University Press