Queering the Enlightenment - Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature

Queering the Enlightenment analyzes French literature from the 1730s and 40s to illuminate the potential of queer forms of kinship to dismantle the patriarchy and to help us imagine what might take its place. Through studies of Prévost, Graffigny, Marivaux, and Crébillon, Tracy Rutler uncovers a current of resistance to the rise of the heteronormative family in 18th-century France.

About the author

Tracy Rutler is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the co-creator of the Legacies of the Enlightenment project, and author of numerous articles on 18th-century French literature and theory. She specializes in queer theory, psychoanalysis, and disability studies.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Tracy Rutler
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781800859807
• ISBN: 978-1-80085-980-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford University Studies in t; Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories