Toal, Catherine, <br/><br/>
The entrapments of form /Catherine Toal. 

 - First edition. 
 - New York :  Fordham University Press,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/> This edition previously issued in print: 2016. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: The "Strange and Familiar Word" --  1. The Forms of the Perverse --  2. "Some Things Which Could Never Have Happened" --  3. Murder and "Point of View" --  4. The Marquis de Sade in the Twentieth Century --  5. American Cruelty. 
<br/><br/> This work describes the narrative form of cruelty in modern literature. It focuses on the two main literary traditions that carry the legacy of revolutionary upheaval in modernity, the French and the American, and shows the transfers of influence that create the contemporary outline of the concept. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780823269396 9780823269389 9780823269372 9780823269365 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>French literature--History and criticism.--19th century<br/>American literature--History and criticism.--19th century<br/>Cruelty in literature.<br/>Modernism (Literature)--France.<br/>Modernism (Literature)--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ295  / .E587 2016