Chardin, Charrière, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and Marivaux
by
Servanne Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Baroque novels focus on the psychology of love, while love in the context of nature is the subject of the pastoral genre. Introducing animals to such texts proves unexpectedly challenging. The inclusion of pets in the artistic representation involves a reversal of scale and various modes of comedy,...