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This book describes the narrative form of cruelty in modern literature. It focuses on the two main literary traditions that carry the legacy of revolutionary upheaval in modernity, the French and the American, and shows the transfers of influence that create the contemporary outline of the concept.

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"This is a bracing book, a powerful argument on a topic of real import, written with unusual elegance and panache." -- -Amanda Claybaugh Harvard University

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: The "Strange and Familiar Word" Chapter 1: The Forms of the Perverse Chapter 2: "Some Things Which Could Never Have Happened" Chapter 3: Murder and "Point of View" Chapter 4: The Marquis de Sade in the Twentieth Century Chapter 5: American Cruelty

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      Publisher: ME - Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/1/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780823269341, 978-0823269341
      ISBN10: 0823269345

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book describes the narrative form of cruelty in modern literature. It focuses on the two main literary traditions that carry the legacy of revolutionary upheaval in modernity, the French and the American, and shows the transfers of influence that create the contemporary outline of the concept.

      Trade Review
      "This is a bracing book, a powerful argument on a topic of real import, written with unusual elegance and panache." -- -Amanda Claybaugh Harvard University

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction: The "Strange and Familiar Word" Chapter 1: The Forms of the Perverse Chapter 2: "Some Things Which Could Never Have Happened" Chapter 3: Murder and "Point of View" Chapter 4: The Marquis de Sade in the Twentieth Century Chapter 5: American Cruelty

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