Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-392) and index.
Contents
The rise of aristocratic fiction -- The ideology of realism in the early seventeenth century -- Polexandre and the politics of heroic fiction -- The alienation and commodification of the novel -- Le roman bourgeois and the modern novel -- A discourse of one's own : La princesse de Cleves -- Mastery and seduction in eighteenth-century fiction -- "Burn the letter!" : La religieuse -- Justine and the discourse of the (other) master.
