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The Eighteenth-Century French Novel - Techniques of Illusion (Paperback, Revised)
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The Eighteenth-Century French Novel - Techniques of Illusion (Paperback, Revised)
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This book deals with the ways in which the French novel of the
eighteenth century marks a transition from the long, implausible
and often clumsy works of the seventeenth century to the
masterpieces of Balzac, Stendhal and Laubert. For her study,
Professor Mylne has chosen works by Lesage, Prevost, Marivaux,
Crebillon fils, Rousseau, Diderot, Laclos, Restif de la Bretonne
and Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and through her consideration of
these particular authors she traces the development of the
novelists' technique in the representation of life. She discusses,
firstly, the theories and aims which conditioned the genre, such as
the allegation of a moral purpose and the pretence that the novel
is a true story, an attitude which contributed to the widespread
popularity of memoir-novels and the epistolary form. Secondly, on
the level of technique and structure, the author studies methods of
characterisation and plot-construction, effects of style and
emotional tone, and descriptive devices such as the use of factual
details to increase verisimilitude.
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