Seducing the Eighteenth-century French Reader

Reading, Writing, and the Question of Pleasure

• Author(s): Paul J. Young,
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• Pages: 167
• ISBN_10: 0754664171
  ISBN_13: 9780754664178
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / French ,

Description:... As he demonstrates that narratives of seduction function as a master plot for French literature in the 18th century, Paul Young argues that the prevalence of this trope was a reaction to a dominant cultural discourse that coded the novel and the new practice of solitary reading as dangerous, seductive practices.