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Thinking with demons : Flaubert and de Sade. / Wall, Geoffrey.
In: Cambridge Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2007, p. 101-128.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Thinking with demons
T2 - Flaubert and de Sade
AU - Wall, Geoffrey
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - In this article we are invited to observe that eighteenth century demon, the Marquis de Sade, as he dwells in the mind of that eminently lucid nineteenth century dreamer, Gustave Flaubert. The emergent bourgeois soul, shackled by strict new imperatives of moral propriety, engenders an imaginary aristrocrat to act out its sullen and undemocratic fantasies of supreme power, material luxury and sexual pleasure. The subsequent contortions are hideously and instructively comic.
AB - In this article we are invited to observe that eighteenth century demon, the Marquis de Sade, as he dwells in the mind of that eminently lucid nineteenth century dreamer, Gustave Flaubert. The emergent bourgeois soul, shackled by strict new imperatives of moral propriety, engenders an imaginary aristrocrat to act out its sullen and undemocratic fantasies of supreme power, material luxury and sexual pleasure. The subsequent contortions are hideously and instructively comic.
U2 - 10.1093/camqtly/bfl030
DO - 10.1093/camqtly/bfl030
M3 - Article
VL - 36
SP - 101
EP - 128
JO - Cambridge Quarterly
JF - Cambridge Quarterly
SN - 0008-199X
IS - 2
ER -