Thinking with demons: Flaubert and de Sade

Geoffrey Wall

doi:10.1093/camqtly/bfl030

Thinking with demons: Flaubert and de Sade

Geoffrey Wall

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	101-128
Number of pages	29
Journal	Cambridge Quarterly
Volume	36
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfl030
Publication status	Published - 2007

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