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'What is striking in this monograph it its richness of documentation combined with Gallic methodological rigour [...] drawing on bibliography, publishing history, lexicology and discourse analysis. [...] This is an important and stimulating work of scholarship which is essential reading for all those interested in French print culture of the eighteenth century.'
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'In addition to the rich array of eighteenth-century sources evoked, this book is especially strong in its discussion of the limits of visual drama, in particular the way in which the ‘obscene’ functions as an oppositional construct that presupposes the prevailing code of bienséance.'
French Studies, Volume 65, Issue 1



Table of Contents
Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction: viewing pleasure

1. The theatre apparatus and masochistic spectatorship

2. Tancrède and tout montrer

3. Spectacle, artifice and genre

4. Masochism and the Sadean tableau

5. Limits of a visual theatre

6. Reading pleasure

7. A theatre of the sublime

Conclusion

Appendix: a chronology of Sade’s plays

Bibliography

Index

Sades Theatre Pleasure Vision Masochism

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      Publisher: LUP - Voltaire Foundation
      Publication Date: 2/28/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780729409032, 978-0729409032
      ISBN10: 0729409031
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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      'What is striking in this monograph it its richness of documentation combined with Gallic methodological rigour [...] drawing on bibliography, publishing history, lexicology and discourse analysis. [...] This is an important and stimulating work of scholarship which is essential reading for all those interested in French print culture of the eighteenth century.'
      SHARP News


      'In addition to the rich array of eighteenth-century sources evoked, this book is especially strong in its discussion of the limits of visual drama, in particular the way in which the ‘obscene’ functions as an oppositional construct that presupposes the prevailing code of bienséance.'
      French Studies, Volume 65, Issue 1



      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements

      List of abbreviations

      Introduction: viewing pleasure

      1. The theatre apparatus and masochistic spectatorship

      2. Tancrède and tout montrer

      3. Spectacle, artifice and genre

      4. Masochism and the Sadean tableau

      5. Limits of a visual theatre

      6. Reading pleasure

      7. A theatre of the sublime

      Conclusion

      Appendix: a chronology of Sade’s plays

      Bibliography

      Index

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