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100 1 _aWagstaff, Peter,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMemory and Desire :
_bRétif de la Bretonne, Autobiography and Utopia /
_cPeter Wagstaff.
246 3 _aRétif de la Bretonne, Autobiography and Utopia
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c1996.
264 4 _c©1996
300 _a1 online resource (180 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aFaux Titre ;
_v115
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _tPreface. Introduction. 1. Emigration. 2. Exile. 3. The Utopian Impulse. 4. Later Utopias. 5. The Search for Self. 6. Fathers and Sons. 7. The Family Romance. 8. The Last Taboo. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.
520 _aThis study challenges the conventional view of Rétif de la Bretonne as a chronicler of eighteenth-century France and notorious exponent of 'la littérature galante', to provide both students and scholars with a fresh analysis focusing on two themes - autobiography and utopianism - which feature prominently in his writing. It suggests that each is the product of similar impulses, reflecting common polarities between public and private, self and others, past and future. In tracing Rétif's persistent but frustrated attempts to reconcile the conflicting elements of the world he inhabits - rural and urban, old and new, stable and changing - this volume analyses the failure of his utopian dream of a well-ordered and harmonious society. By exploring his absorption in the autobiographical project, and in particular Monsieur Nicolas ou le cœur humain dévoilé , it offers an interpretation of his work as a sustained reflection on selfhood and on the power of memory which enables Rétif to create, within the confines of the text, a utopian space where self and world are reconciled, and time and space no longer count. .
546 _aEnglish
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aAutobiographical fiction, French
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aUtopias in literature.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tMemory and Desire : Rétif de la Bretonne, Autobiography and Utopia.
_dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 1996.
_z9789042000285
830 0 _aFaux Titre ;
_v115.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004648685
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