Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: The Phantom of Chance
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Fortune, Mistress of Events: Corneille and the Poetics of Tragedy
- 2 God in a World of Chance: Pascal's Pensées and Provincial Letters
- 3 From Chance Events to Implausible Actions: Lafayette and the Novel
- 4 The God of Suspense: Bossuet's Providential History and Racine's Athalie
- 5 An Accidental World: La Bruyère's Characters
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: The Phantom of Chance
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Fortune, Mistress of Events: Corneille and the Poetics of Tragedy
- 2 God in a World of Chance: Pascal's Pensées and Provincial Letters
- 3 From Chance Events to Implausible Actions: Lafayette and the Novel
- 4 The God of Suspense: Bossuet's Providential History and Racine's Athalie
- 5 An Accidental World: La Bruyère's Characters
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Phantom of ChanceFrom Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature, pp. xviiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2011