The Marquise de Gange
The Marquis de Sade
Will McMorran
08 October 2021
ISBN: 9780198848288
240 pages
Paperback
196x129mm
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Price: £8.99Loosely based on one of the most notorious crimes of the seventeenth century, The Marquise de Gange by The Marquis de Sade is a neglected classic. Although a departure from his earlier pornographic and libertine works, the novel reads with the same subversive tension of an author plotting against virtue in his distress.
Description
Loosely based on one of the most notorious crimes of the seventeenth century, The Marquise de Gange by The Marquis de Sade is a neglected classic. Although a departure from his earlier pornographic and libertine works, the novel reads with the same subversive tension of an author plotting against virtue in his distress.
- Published in English for the first time, The Marquise de Gange is a neglected Gothic classic by one of the most notorious authors in the literary canon
- Translated by a prize-winning translator and Sade specialist
- Provides an introduction situating Sade and his novel in relation to the Gothic tradition, and in relation to Sade's earlier works
- Includes an appendix of Sade's source for the novel
About the Author(s)
The Marquis de Sade
Will McMorran, Reader in French & Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of LondonDr. Will McMorran is a Reader in French & Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. His translation of Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom with Thomas Wynn was awarded the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 2017.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of the Marquis de Sade
THE MARQUIS DE GANGE
Appendix
Explanatory Notes
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