Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales

Between Fact and Fiction

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, French, Books & Reading
Cover of the book Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales by Rori Bloom, Léa Lebourg-Leportier, Claire Trevien, Bucknell University Press
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Author: Rori Bloom, Léa Lebourg-Leportier, Claire Trevien ISBN: 9781611487718
Publisher: Bucknell University Press Publication: July 20, 2016
Imprint: Bucknell University Press Language: English
Author: Rori Bloom, Léa Lebourg-Leportier, Claire Trevien
ISBN: 9781611487718
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Publication: July 20, 2016
Imprint: Bucknell University Press
Language: English

This volume is a study of the interdisciplinary nature of prison escape tales and their impact on European cultural identity in the eighteenth century. Prison escape narratives are reflections of the tension between the individual’s potential happiness via freedom and the confines of the social order. Contemporary readers identified with the prisoner, who, like them suffered the injustices of an absolutist regime. The state imprisons such renegades not just out of a desire to protect the public but more importantly to protect the state itself. Hence, prison escape tales can be linked with a revolutionary tendency: when free, such former detainees equipped with a pen openly and justly challenge the status quo, hoping to inspire their readers to do the same. Escape tales have had a considerable impact on cultural identity, because they embody the interdependent relationship between literature and myth on the one hand and literature and history on the other.

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This volume is a study of the interdisciplinary nature of prison escape tales and their impact on European cultural identity in the eighteenth century. Prison escape narratives are reflections of the tension between the individual’s potential happiness via freedom and the confines of the social order. Contemporary readers identified with the prisoner, who, like them suffered the injustices of an absolutist regime. The state imprisons such renegades not just out of a desire to protect the public but more importantly to protect the state itself. Hence, prison escape tales can be linked with a revolutionary tendency: when free, such former detainees equipped with a pen openly and justly challenge the status quo, hoping to inspire their readers to do the same. Escape tales have had a considerable impact on cultural identity, because they embody the interdependent relationship between literature and myth on the one hand and literature and history on the other.

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