Sade and the Narrative of Transgression

This major collection of essays on the Marquis de Sade encompasses a wide range of critical approaches to his ouvre, including some of the most celebrated texts in Sade scholarship. It focuses on several distinctly contemporary areas of interest: the explicitly libidinal components of Sade's work and the effects they engender, the textual and narrative apparatus which supports these operations, the ethical and political concerns which arise from them, and the problematic issues surrounding the conceptual closure of representation. Sade is placed at the centre of current debates in literary and philosophical criticism, feminist and gender theory, aesthetics, rhetoric and eighteenth-century French cultural history, and this volume will be of interest to a wide range of readers across these disciplines.

ISBN 0521444152   Volumes 001 ISBN13 9780521444156 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 463 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Series editor Sheringham, Michael (Royal Holloway College, University of London), Sheringham, Michael (Royal Hollo Format Hardback   Series title Cambridge Studies in French Publication date 30 Mar 1995   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress PQ2063.S3 S153 1995   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 843.6   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY edition DC20   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 288

		List of contributors
		Acknowledgments
		Introduction		1
1		The use value of D. A. F. Sade (An open letter to my current comrades) by Georges Bataille		16
2		Sade, or the philosopher-villain by Pierre Klossowski		33
3		Libidinal economy in Sade and Klossowski by Jean-Francois Lyotard		62
4		A political minimalist by Philippe Roger		76
5		The Society of the Friends of Crime by Alphonso Lingis		100
6		Sade, mothers, and other women by Jane Gallop		122
7		The encyclopedia of excess by Marcel Henaff		142
8		"Sex," or, the misfortunes of literature by Dalia Judovitz		171
9		Structures of exchange, acts of transgression by Allen S. Weiss		199
10		Gender and narrative possibilities by Nancy K. Miller		213
11		Sade's literary space by Lawrence Schehr		228
12		Fantasizing Juliette by Chantal Thomas		251
		Select bibliography		265
		Index		270

'This excellent collection of essays merits closer consideration by advanced specialists. In addition to making classical texts on Sade published in French available to the English reader, the text offers an updated perspective on more recent scholarship.' French Review

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