Authority in Crisis in French Literature, 1850-1880
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781472444264
Subjects: Rimbaud, arthur, 1854-1891; Verne, jules, 1828-1905; French literature, history and criticism, 19th century; Authorship; Authority in literature; Literature and society
Description: "Considering the crises of literary authority in nineteenth-century French literature against the backdrop of the Second Empire (1852-1870) and the aftermath of the bloody Paris Commune of 1871, Seth Whidden focuses on the phenomena - literary collaboration, parody, destabilized poetic form, the substitution of one poetic or narrative voice with that of the many - that enabled challenges to the traditional status of the writer and, by extension, the political authority that it reflected"--