Verfasst von:	Rutler, Tracy L. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Queering the Enlightenment
Titelzusatz:	kinship and gender in eighteenth-century French literature
Verf.angabe:	Tracy L. Rutler
Verlagsort:	Liverpool
	Oxford
Verlag:	Liverpool University Press
	Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford
E-Jahr:	2021
Jahr:	[2021]
	[2021]
Umfang:	xxi, 291 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Format:	24 cm
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment ; 2021,11
Fussnoten:	Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 273-284
ISBN:	978-1-80085-980-7
	1-80085-980-5
Abstract:	"Liminal periods in politics often serve as points in time when traditional methods and principles organizing society are disrupted. These periods of interregnum may not always result in complete social upheaval, but they do open the space to imagine social and political change in diverse forms. In 'Queering the Enlightenment: kinship and gender in eighteenth-century French literature', Tracy L. Rutler uncovers how numerous canonical authors of the 1730s and 1740s were imagining radically different ways of organizing the masses during the early years of Louis XV's reign. Through studies of the literature of Antoine-François Prévost, Claude Crébillon, Pierre de Marivaux, and Françoise de Graffigny among others, Rutler demonstrates how the heteronormative bourgeois family's rise to dominance in late-eighteenth-century France had long been contested within the fictional worlds of many French authors. The utopian impulses guiding the fiction studied in this book distinguish these authors as some of the most brilliant political theorists of the day. Enlightenment, for these authors, means reorienting one's relation to power by reorganizing their most intimate relations. Using a practice of reading queerly, Rutler shows how these works illuminate the unparalleled potential of queer forms of kinship to dismantle the patriarchy and help us imagine what might eventually take its place."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper
Schlagwörter:	(s)Französisch    / (s)Literatur    / (s)Aufklärung    / (s)Geschlechterrolle <Motiv>    / (s)Verwandtschaft <Motiv>    / (z)Geschichte 1700-1800
	(s)Französisch    / (s)Literatur    / (s)Queer-Theorie    / (z)Geschichte 1700-1800
Sprache:	eng fre
RVK-Notation:	IG 1378
Sach-SW:	Enlightenment
	French literature
	Criticism, interpretation, etc
Geograph. SW:	France
K10plus-PPN:	178038212X
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