Claire D'albe: An English Translation - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 087352926X ISBN 13 : 9780873529266

Editeur : Modern Language Association of America, 2002

Synopsis

Both Claire and her husband, M. d'Albe, are virtuous and upstanding, and Frédéric, her husband's nineteen-year-old adopted son and factory assistant, is honest and noble-hearted. But in the beautiful and secluded Loire Valley, the friendship between Claire and Frédéric gradually develops into a forbidden passion.

Claire d'Albe (1799) was audacious in its day for its representation of adulterous love as a positive act of self-fulfillment. As the volume editor, Margaret Cohen, indicates, Sophie Cottin's best-selling work of sentimentalism highlights the tension in Enlightenment liberalism between collective welfare and personal happiness. Although such later French authors as Stendhal and Balzac denigrated sentimentalism along with female novelists, Claire d'Albe influenced their realist aesthetics.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Sophie Cottin, born in 1770, was raised in a Protestant, upper-middle-class family from Bordeaux. She received no formal education but corresponded and read extensively. Exiled from Paris by the Terror and displaced by the loss of her husband, mother, and fortune, she retired to a country house in 1794 to become one of France's preeminent novelists. Claire d'Albe was translated into several languages.

Margaret Cohen is professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. Her publications include The Novel and the Sea, Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution, and The Sentimental Education of the Novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Modern Language Association of America
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 087352926X
• ISBN 13: 9780873529266
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible