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Conflits sociaux, moraux et économiques dans Mathilde de Félix Pyat et Eugène Sue
Abstract:This article studies Félix Pyat’s and Eugène Sue’s 1842 drama, Mathilde, in order to show how money serves as a lever of power used to challenge and contest traditional moral values, the integrity of the family, and the foundations of social organization. Lugarto, the drama’s wealthy and unscrupulous villain, is both a racial outsider and a social interloper who takes advantage of the secrets he has uncovered and the prestige afforded by the fortune he has inherited to bend others to his will. The play also highlights the way money, gender and the law intersect to circumscribe the lives of women. Because the representation of women is determined here by actual historical forces, the status of women as virtuous victims is made somewhat more realistic than it had been in melodramas earlier in the century. (In French.)
期刊介绍:
Nineteenth-Century French Studies provides scholars and students with the opportunity to examine new trends, review promising research findings, and become better acquainted with professional developments in the field. Scholarly articles on all aspects of nineteenth-century French literature and criticism are invited. Published articles are peer reviewed to ensure scholarly integrity. This journal has an extensive book review section covering a variety of disciplines. Nineteenth-Century French Studies is published twice a year in two double issues, fall/winter and spring/summer.