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The Romantic Prison - The French Tradition (Paperback)
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The Romantic Prison - The French Tradition (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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"Prison haunts our civilization," writes Victor Brombert. "Object
of fear, it is also a subject of poetic reverie." Focusing on
French literature of the Romantic era, the author probes the
manifold significance of imprisonment as symbol and metaphor of the
human condition. His thematic exploration draws on a constellation
of writers ranging from the Platonic and Christian traditions to
the Existentialist generation. Professor Brombert points out that
nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature endowed the prison
image with unusual prestige, and he examines the historical and
social reasons. After considering the influence of Pascal and of
the myth of the Bastille, he closely analyzes the work of Borel,
Stendhal, Victor Hugo, Nerval, Baudelaire, Huysmans, and Sartre,
with excursions into texts by Byron, Dostoevsky, Kafka,
Solzhenitsyn, Sade, and others. His approach reflects a concern
with the interaction of literature, historiography, and popular
myth. This imaginative treatment deepens our understanding of
Romanticism and its favored themes. It offers fresh thoughts as
well about modern man's dialectical tensions between oppression and
inner freedom, fate and revolt, and the awareness of the finite and
the longing for infinity. A wide-ranging conclusion speculates
about the future of the prison theme in a world that has been
threatened by extermination camps. Originally published in 1978.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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