01497nam a22001817a 4500020001800000082001000018100001900028245006600047260004400113300003300157490002900190505003800219520079700257650007101054942000701125999001701132952016601149  a9780192804693  a843.6  aPhillips, John  aThe Marquis de Sade: A Very Short IntroductioncJohn Phillips  aNew YorkbOxford University Pressc2005  axiii,141 Pagesb17x11 cmbPB  aVery Short Introductions  aIncludes Index and Illustrations.  aAn 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.  aSade, -- marquis de, -- 1740-1814 -- Criticism and interpretation.  cBK  c29808d29808  0010406843_600000000000000_P543M_2005708NFIC929172aGPLbGPLcGENd2017-04-16eCRV/GPLM/17/2016g678.31o843.6 P543M 2005p36033r2017-04-16w2017-04-16yBK