The Prison in Nineteenth-Century Literature | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 15 pages of analysis & critique of The Prison in Nineteenth-Century Literature.

The Prison in Nineteenth-Century Literature | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 15 pages of analysis & critique of The Prison in Nineteenth-Century Literature.
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SOURCE: Algazi, Lisa G. “Throw Away the Key: The Prison as Maternal Space in the Stendhalian Novel.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 26, nos. 3-4 (1998): 286-94.

In the following essay, Algazi discusses the novels La Chartreuse de Parme and Le Rouge et le Noir extending the analysis of Victor Brombert's The Romantic Prison to suggest that the happiness and self-discovery of the prison relied partially on the fantasy of the prison as a return to the mother-infant relationship.

vivre sans vous voir tous les jours serait pour moi un bien autre supplice que cette prison! de la vie je ne fus aussi heureux! … N'est-il pas plaisant de voir que le bonheur m'attendait en prison?

Stendhal, La Chartreuse de Parme (2: 174)

je serais mort sans connaître le bonheur, si vous n'étiez venue me voir dans cette prison.

Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir (1: 320)

In the words of Fabrice, protagonist of La...

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