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A Casebook Edition of The Diabolic Tragedy
Critical Essays and Translation
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This casebook edition comprises critical essays about and an English translation of La Diabolique Tragédie. Each essay is an example of what Peter Barry has called âCrisis Critique,â the commentaries ranging from the psychoanalytical, to the feminist, the historicist and the religious. A âpoème en proseâ dating from the start of the nineteenth century, La Diabolique Tragédie was first published in 2011. It was the work of a forger whose (unrealized) endgame was for the text to be presented to the public of the day as an authentic work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The critical essays represent a series of impressions of different types of literary critics, which â the author hopes â will prove a good match for the forgerâs âmock Rousseau.â
Brian Russell Graham completed his PhD in English Literature at University of Glasgow. He is a lecturer at University of Copenhagen. His second and third monographs â On a Common Culture and Speech Acts in Blakeâs âMiltonâ â were published in 2022.
Part 1: Casebook
Introduction
âProfessor Z
1. Oedipus Dreaming: A Kleinian Reading of The Diabolic Tragedy
âProfessor S
2. The (Rousseauist) Last Man and The (Sadeian) Last Woman: Terminal Femininities in The Diabolic Tragedy
âProfessor J
3. The Story Mme X Should Have Told: a Neumannian Perspective
âProfessor L
4. The Diabolic Tragedy as âSado-Rousseauistâ Myth
âProfessor Q
5. The Enigma of The Diabolic Tragedy
âProfessor F
6. Through a Basilisk, Darkly; Or, How to Avoid Being Turned to Stone by The Diabolic Tragedy
âProfessor A
Bibliography
Part 2: The Diabolic Tragedy by Madame X
âtranslated by Brian Russell Graham
A Note on the Text: The Text of The Diabolic Tragedy
Index
Departments and students (undergraduate and graduate) of comparative and French literature, as well as lecturers and students of nineteenth- (and long eighteenth-century-) literature.