Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Laclos, Pierre Ambroise FranÇois Choderlos De - pyĕr äNbrwäzˈ fräNswäˈ shôdĕrlōˈ də läklōˈ, 1741–1803, French novelist and general, known as Choderlos de Laclos. He is best known for Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782; tr. Dangerous Connections, 1784, and Dangerous Acquaintances Read More...

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Virtue, Gender, and the Authentic Self in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Richardson, Rousseau, and Laclos (Chap. 4 "'Le Langage Imite des Livres': Les Liaisons Dangereuses")
by Christine Roulston. 211 pgs.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on the Text

Introduction

1: The Letter in My Bosom Pamela

2: Let Me Have Pen, and Ink

3: Elle Ne Lit Plus

4: Le Langage Imité Des Livres

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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More Classics Revisited ("Choderlos de Laclos: Dangerous Acquaintances" begins on p. 75)
by Bradford Morrow, Kenneth Rexroth. 150 pgs.

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Books by Kenneth Rexroth

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Editor's Note

The Song of Songs

Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching

The Bhagavad-Gita

Ssu-Ma Ch'Ien Records of the Grand Historian of China

Catullus

Catullus

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Choderlos De Laclos Dangerous Acquaintances

Gilbert White the Natural History and Antiquity of Selbourne

Gilbert White the Natural History and Antiquity of Selbourne

Gilbert White the Natural History and Antiquity of Selbourne

Gilbert White the Natural History and Antiquity of Selbourne

Honoré De Balzac

The Journal of John Woolman

The Journal of John Woolman

The Journal of John Woolman

Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin

Frederick Douglass

Fathers and Sons

Sherlock Holmes

Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman

William Butler Yeats Plays

Ford Madox Ford Parade's End

Franz Kafka the Trial

Franz Kafka the Trial

William Carlos Williams Poems
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Culture and Society in France, 1789-1848 ("Laclos: Les Liaisons Dangereuses" begins on p. 8)
by F. W. J. Hemmings. 344 pgs.

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Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: On the Eve of the Revolution

[2] the Revolution

[3] the Napoleonic Age

[4] the Restoration: Louis XVIII

5: Romanticism at Flood-Tide: The Reign of Charles X

[6] the July Monarchy

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Rhetoric: Readings in French Literature ("Rhetoric and Sex in Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses" begins on p. 125)
by Michael Hawcroft. 270 pgs.

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Introduction

I: Rhetorical Theory: A Practical Guide

2: Oratory

3: Drama

4: Prose Fiction

5: Poetry

6: The Self

Conclusion

Appendix: Outline of Chapter 1

Select Bibliography

Index of Rhetorical Terms

Index of Names and Works
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Terrible Sociability: The Text of Manners in Laclos, Goethe, and James (Chap. 2 "Les Liaisons Dangereuses: The Endgames of Mondanite")
by Susan Winnett. 245 pgs.

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Chapter I: Introduction

Chapter 2: Les Liaisons dangereuses: The Endgames of Mondanité

Chapter 3: Die Wahlverwandtschaften: The Text of Manners in Spiegelschrift

Chapter 4: The Golden Bowl: The Disposition of Manners

Afterword

Index
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The Novel in France: Mme, de la Fayette, Laclos, Constant, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Proust ("Choderlos de Laclos and the Liaisons Dangereuses" begins on p. 49)
by Martin Turnell. 432 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Illustrations

The Language of Fiction

Madame De La Fayette And La Princesse De ClÈves

Choderlos De Laclos And The Liaisons Dangereuses

Benjamin Constant and Adolphe

I. Portrait of the Artist

Ii. Adolphe

Stendhal

I. M. Beyle's Press Conference

Ii. La Vie De Henri Brulard

Iii. Le Rouge Et Le Noir

Iv. Lucien Leuwen Or the Novelist in Politics

V. La Chartreuse De Parme

Vi. 'A Ticket in a Lottery'

Balzac

I. the Novelist and His Age

Ii. the World of the ComÉdie Humaine

Iii. Four Novels

Iv. 'What Does It Prove?'

Flaubert

I. the Politics of a Novelist

Ii. the Man and the Writer

Iii. Madame Bovary

Iv. L'Éducation Sentimentale

V. Style and Language

Vi. Conclusion

Proust

I. a New Vision

Ii. the Noah's Ark

Iii. a La Recherche Du Temps Perdu

Iv. Style

V. the Place of Proust

The French Dialogue'

Bibliography

Index
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The Authority of Experience: Sensationist Theory in the French Enlightenment (Chap. 6 "The Perversion of Sensationism in Laclos and Sade")
by John C. O'Neal. 284 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

A Note on the Selection and Translation of Texts

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

PART I: THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH HISTORY OF AN IDEA

1: Condillac and the Meaning of Experience

2: Bonnet's Mind-Body Continuum in the Economy of Our Being

3: Helvýtius's Seminal Concept of Physical Sensibility

PART II: AESTHETICS

4: The Sensationist Aesthetics of the French Enlightenment

5: An Exemplary Yet Divergent Text: Graffigny's Lettres D'Une Péruvienne

6: The Perversion of Sensationism in Laclos and Sade

PART III: THE POLITICS OF SENSATIONISM

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8: Materialism's Extension of Sensationist Principles

9: The Adoption and Critique of Sensationism by the Idéologues

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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