Description
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
I. Prévost’s narrators
1.
Mémoires d’un homme de qualité 2.
Cleveland 3.
Le Doyen de Killerine 4. The novels of 1740
5. The late novels
6. Interpreting the narrator
II. Narrative techniques
7. Generic factors
8. The observed world
9. Interpolations and parallels
III. Value systems in conflict
A. The code of sensibility
10. The man of emotion
11. The legitimacy of love
12. The perils of love
13. The decline of an ideal
14. Women in Prévost’s novels
B. The code of honour
15. The ideal gentleman
16. The ideal and the reality
17. Worldliness
18. Man in society
C. The code of religion
19. The religious life
20. Providence
21. The hierarchy of orders
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
