The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction
by Phillips, John
Series: Very Short Introductions Published by : Oxford University Press (New York) Physical details: xiii,141 Pages 17x11 cm | PB ISBN:9780192804693. Year: 2005| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes Index and Illustrations.
An introductory chapter discusses Sade's life and the links between that and his work. Relying on the many letters he wrote to his wife and lawyer from prison and on other authentic, contemporary evidence, it attempts to disentangle this life from the various myths that Sade's demonic reputation has engendered throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This initial chapter also reviews the critical corpus or reception of the work since Sade's times up to the present, and reassesses his status as an extra-canonical writer. The following six chapters provide broad coverage of Sade's main intellectual and creative activities, showing how all can be seen as the expression of a veritable cult of the body, a veneration of the physical, and the sexual as channels of transcendence.
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