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- Title
Illustrating Narrative Seduction: The Example of Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses in the Illustrated Edition of 1796.
- Authors
Ganofsky, Marine
- Abstract
The engravings of the 1796 edition of Les Liaisons dangereuses bear witness to the late eighteenth-century belief in a parallel between amorous and narrative seductions. More than mere interpretations of an intrigue, book engravings also offer a valuable insight into contemporaneous conceptualisations of novel-reading. The series studied here can be interpreted as illustrating the early modern theory that what unites reader and author is indeed a dangerous liaison. By presenting a dialogue between these engravings and eighteenth-century reception theories, I argue that book illustrations can help us understand how narrative seduction was believed to operate during the French Enlightenment.
- Subjects
FRANCE; DANGEROUS Liaisons (Book : de Laclos); SEDUCTION in literature; 18TH century book illustration; RECEPTION theory; NARRATIVES in literature; LACLOS, Choderlos de, 1741-1803; ENLIGHTENMENT; FICTION; ETHICS
- Publication
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2015, Vol 38, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1754-0194
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1754-0208.12130