Document Type
Article
Date
5-1998
Keywords
French literature, peasants, city life, Libertinism / Restif de la Bretonne, Nicolas-Edme
Language
English
Disciplines
French and Francophone Language and Literature
Description/Abstract
In Le Paysan perverti, ou Les Dangers de la ville (1775) Nicolas Edme Retif de la Bretonne portrays the tragic life of Edmond R.**, a virtuous young peasant seduced and corrupted by the libertine possibilities of the city.
Recommended Citation
Wyngaard, Amy S., "Libertine Spaces: Anonymous crowds, Secret Chambers, and Urban Corruption in Retif de la Bretonne" (1998). Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship. 1.
https://surface.syr.edu/lll/1
Source
local input
Additional Information
From Eighteenth Century Life Published Tri-Annually for the College of William and Mary by the Johns Hopkins University Press, Volume 22 n.s. 2, May, 1998.