The Upstart Peasant
Author | : Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Karen L. Taylor |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 0816074992 |
French novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "The Stranger" are staples of high school and college literature courses. This work provides coverage of the French novel since its origins in the 16th century, with an emphasis on novels most commonly studied in high school and college courses in world literature and in French culture and civilization.
Author | : Kathy Le Mons Walker |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780804729321 |
This ambitious work traces a social history of semicolonialism in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century China. It takes as its central concern the intertwining of two antagonistic forces: elite constructions of modernity shaped globally, and an alternate line of peasant resistance and development. Nantong county and the northern portion of the commercially advanced Yangzi Delta form its focal points. Lying in the hinterland of and connected in myriad ways with the treaty port of Shanghai, which in the late nineteenth century became the center of imperialist activity in China, the northern delta is an ideal locale for examining how the acquisition, transmission, and contestation of power may have changed during the extended moment of semicolonial encounter. The authors specific project is to unravel the multiple strands of the semicolonial process and thereby the dominant and alternative histories it embodied. In emphasizing semicolonialism as a structural context shaping events, the book opens up a pivotal but silent area in the history of modern China. In confronting the development of capitalism as a historical phenomenon and suggesting that its consequences for land and labor on a global scale need greater theoretical and historical scrutiny, the book forces a new understanding of Chinas modernity. The book is in two parts. The first delineates key long-term dynamics in the political, economic, and social history of the area from the late Ming dynasty to the Opium Wars. The second part begins with an examination of the rise of modernist urban power in the context of accelerating growth in the textile and cotton trades, focusing on such topics as economic restructuring under Shanghais impetus, new forms of economic and political organization, and contention as well as cooperation within the urban elite. Turning to the countryside, the book then examines the regearing of the rural economy to the needs of urban capital, local and global; outlines the emergence of modern landlordism and other rural capitalisms; analyzes class formation in the peasantry associated with changes in labor organization, tenurial arrangements, and the gendered division of labor; and traces the coalescence of a distinctive political discourse through which peasants contested certain development schemes and advanced alternative conceptions of community and nation.
Author | : Anne Beale |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : National characteristics, Welsh |
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Author | : Steven Moore |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 1025 |
Release | : 2013-08-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1623565197 |
Winner of the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from Don Quixote to America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Modern Chivalry. This is the period of such classic novels as Tom Jones, Candide, and Dangerous Liaisons, but beyond the dozen or so recognized classics there are hundreds of other interesting novels that appeared then, known only to specialists: Spanish picaresques, French heroic romances, massive Chinese novels, Japanese graphic novels, eccentric English novels, and the earliest American novels. These minor novels are not only interesting in their own right, but also provide the context needed to appreciate why the major novels were major breakthroughs. The novel experienced an explosive growth spurt during these centuries as novelists experimented with different forms and genres: epistolary novels, romances, Gothic thrillers, novels in verse, parodies, science fiction, episodic road trips, and family sagas, along with quirky, unclassifiable experiments in fiction that resemble contemporary, avant-garde works. As in his previous volume, Moore privileges the innovators and outriders, those who kept the novel novel. In the most comprehensive history of this period ever written, Moore examines over 400 novels from around the world in a lively style that is as entertaining as it is informative. Though written for a general audience, The Novel, An Alternative History also provides the scholarly apparatus required by the serious student of the period. This sequel, like its predecessor, is a “zestfully encyclopedic, avidly opinionated, and dazzlingly fresh history of the most 'elastic' of literary forms” (Booklist).
Author | : Patrick M. Bray |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2013-01-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0810128667 |
Focusing on Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, The Novel Map: Mapping the Self in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and the world as a function of space in a novel turned map. With the rise of the novel and of autobiography, the literary and cultural contexts of nineteenth-century France reconfigured both the ways literature could represent subjects and the ways subjects related to space. In the first-person works of these authors, maps situate the narrator within the imaginary space of the novel. Yet the time inherent in the text’s narrative unsettles the spatial self drawn by the maps and so creates a novel self, one which is both new and literary. The novel self transcends the rigid confines of a map. In this significant study, Patrick M. Bray charts a new direction in critical theory.
Author | : Lawrence W. Lynch |
Publisher | : Summa Publications, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780917786167 |
Examines the theoretical writings of the major French novelists of the eighteenth century.
Author | : David Wiltse |
Publisher | : Graymalkin Media |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2016-09-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1631680455 |
While on an African scientific expedition, Peter Stanhope receives a puzzling invitation to his dead brother's wedding and is plunged into a dangerous scheme of blackmail, intrigue, assassination, espionage, and revenge.
Author | : McGraw-Hill, inc |
Publisher | : VNR AG |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780070791695 |
Ranging from the earliest drama to the theater of the 1980's this encyclopedia includes coverage of national drama and theater around the world, theater companies, and musical comedy. Arrangement of the 1,300 entries is alphabetically by name or subject with nearly 950 of these devoted to individual playwrights and their works.