Northwestern University Press The price of literature: the french novel's theoretical turn, paperback/patrick m. bray

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The Price of Literature examines the presence of theory in the nineteenth-century French novel, something Proust likened to leaving a price tag on a gift.

Emerging after the French Revolution, what we now call literature was conceived as an art liberated from representational constraints.

Patrick M.

Bray shows how literature's freedom to represent anything at all has meant, paradoxically, that it cannot articulate a coherent theory of itself--unless this theory is a necessarily subvers.