TY - BOOK AU - Toal,Catherine TI - The entrapments of form /Catherine Toal SN - 9780823269396 AV - PQ295 .E587 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - French literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - American literature KW - Cruelty in literature KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - France KW - United States KW - Electronic Books N1 - This edition previously issued in print: 2016; 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1244350&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -