Title: Authority in Crisis in French Literature, 1850-1880
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"--
Subjects: Rimbaud, arthur, 1854-1891, Verne, jules, 1828-1905, French literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Authorship, Authority in literature, Literature and society, French literature, History and criticism, History, Social values in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Littérature française, Histoire et critique, Art d'écrire, Aspect politique, Histoire, Autorité dans la littérature, Valeurs sociales dans la littérature, Littérature et société, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, French, Political aspects, Literatur, Französisch, Autorität, Autorschaft, Schriftsteller