A Casebook Edition of the Diabolic Tragedy

Critical Essays and Translation
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72061-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 114 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 213 g

Reihe: Mini-Monographs in Literary and Cultural Studies

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 ‘Crisis Critique,’ the commentaries ranging from the psychoanalytical, to the feminist, the historicist and the religious. A ‘poème en prose’ 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 – the author hopes – will prove a good match for the forger’s ‘mock Rousseau.’

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graham, Brian Russell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Casebook

Introduction

Professor Z

1. Oedipus Dreaming: A Kleinian Reading of The Diabolic Tragedy

Professor S

2. The (Rousseauist) Last Man and The (Sadeian) Last Woman: Terminal Femininities in The Diabolic Tragedy

Professor J

3. The Story Mme X Should Have Told: a Neumannian Perspective

Professor L

4. The Diabolic Tragedy as ‘Sado-Rousseauist’ Myth

Professor Q

5. The Enigma of The Diabolic Tragedy

Professor F

6. Through a Basilisk, Darkly; Or, How to Avoid Being Turned to Stone by The Diabolic Tragedy

Professor A

Bibliography

Part 2: The Diabolic Tragedy by Madame X

translated by Brian Russell Graham

A Note on the Text: The Text of The Diabolic Tragedy

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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 – On a Common Culture and Speech Acts in Blake’s ‘Milton’ – were published in 2022.