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Authority in Crisis in French Literature, 1850-1880 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Authority in Crisis in French Literature, 1850-1880 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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By the 1850s, the expansion of printing and distribution
technologies provided writers with more readers and literary
outlets than ever before, while the ever-changing political
contexts occasioned by the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 brought
about differing degrees of political, social, and literary censure
and pressure. Seth Whidden examines crises of literary authority in
nineteenth-century French literature, both in response to the
attempts of the Second Empire (1852-1870) to restore the
unquestioned imperial authority that had been established by
Napoleon I and in the aftermath of the bloody Paris Commune of
1871. In each of his chapters, Whidden offers a representative case
study highlighting one of several phenomena-literary collaboration,
parody, destabilized poetic form, the substitution of one poetic or
narrative voice with that of the man-that enabled challenges to the
traditional status of the writer and, by extension, the political
authority that it reflected. Whidden focuses on the play Le
Supplice d'une femme (1865); the Cercle Zutiste, a group of
writers, musicians, and artists who met regularly in the fall of
1871, only months after the fall of the Second Empire; Arthur
Rimbaud's Commune-era poems; and Jules Verne's 1851 'Un voyage en
ballon,' later reprinted as 'Un drame dans les airs' in 1874.
Whidden concludes with a futuristic look at authority and auctority
as it pertains to midcentury writers taking stock of the weakened
authority still possible in a post-Second Empire France and
envisioning what kind of auctority is still to come.
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