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The Novel of Worldliness: Crebillon, Marivaux, Laclos, Stendhal
By (Author) Peter Brooks
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
840.9
Hardback
306
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
595g
Contending that a search for "realism" distorts the writing of Crebillon, Marivaux, Laclos, and Stendahl, Peter Brooks considers their novels with reference to the manner in which the characters explore their worth and pursue their own systems of relationships. The novels discussed are used as examples of the fictional exploitation of the drama inh