Man of quality, man of letters
Subtitle: the abbé Prévost between novel and newspaper
By: Rori Bloom.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780838757246
Subjects: Prévost, -- abbé, -- 1697-1763 -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: "In Rori Bloom's exploration of the tension between Antoine-Francois Prevost's novelistic and journalistic writing, she argues that his novels evoke established and even archaic attitudes toward authorship, while his newspaper elaborates a new understanding of the roles of author and public." "Man of Quality, Man of Letters juxtaposes Prevost's novels and newspaper in order to analyze the sophisticated literary strategies through which this author constructed his complex professional identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Authorship in Prévost's novels: from man of quality to man of letters; title: Authorship in Prévost's newspaper: from man of letters to man of quality; title: The public as hero of Le pour et contre; title: The role of the reader in Prévost's novels; title: From private to public: the prefaces of Prévost's novels; title: Prévost's Contes singuliers: between novel and newspaper.