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Article: The Novel's Seductions: Stael's Corinne in Critical Inquiry.(Review) (book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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The Novel's Seductions: Stael's Corinne in Critical Inquiry. Karyna Szmurlo, ed. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1999. Pp. 321. ISBN 0-8387-5337-X
Corinne, arguably one of the most influential novels of the nineteenth century, amply deserves the close attention that it receives in Karyna Szmurlo's The Novel's Seductions: Stael's Corinne in Critical Inquiry. The book begins with a section containing a short introduction in which the editor explains the coherence of the volume and its division into three major parts: Transgressive Rhetorics of Desire, Gender/Genre Bending, and Genie at Large. Next Madelyn Gutwirth provides what is almost a second introduction, "Seeing ...