Authority in Crisis in French Literature, 1850-1880

"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"--

Year

2014

Language

English

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group

Editions

6

Pages

202

ISBN

9781472444264

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