Evariste-Désiré de Parny, Le Paradis perdu
Edited by Ritchie Robertson and Catriona Seth
Click cover to enlarge Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Modern Humanities Research Association 30 June 2009 • 102pp ISBN: 978-0-947623-90-6 (paperback) • RRP £14.99, $19.99, €17.99 ISBN: 978-1-122936-69-9 (Google ebook) • RRP £4.95 Sample: Google Books Evariste-Désiré de Parny, though largely forgotten now, was well known in the nineteenth century for his lyric poems, especially the Poésies Erotiques (1778-81), and the prose-poems in Chansons Madécasses (1787). He also wrote much humorous verse, including the anti-religious La Guerre des Dieux (1799) and Le Paradis perdu (1805). The latter is a parody of Milton’s Paradise Lost in four relatively short cantos. It gives a central place to the War in Heaven, casting Satan as a revolutionary. It is highly entertaining in itself, and also an important example of parody as critical response to an original text. This edition also provides an accurate brief account of Parny’s life and works and the contemporary reception of the text; background material on the reception of Milton in France; and a critical account of how Parny’s parody engages with what have often been perceived as literary and theological weaknesses, or problem areas, in Milton’s text, with due reference to critical discussion of Milton in English. Ritchie Robertson is Professor of German at the University of Oxford, and Catriona Seth is Professor of Eighteenth-Century French Literature at the University of Nancy. Reviews:
Bibliography entry: Robertson, Ritchie, and Catriona Seth (eds), Evariste-Désiré de Parny, Le Paradis perdu, Critical Texts, 20 (MHRA, 2009) First footnote reference: 35 Evariste-Désiré de Parny, Le Paradis perdu, ed. by Ritchie Robertson and Catriona Seth, Critical Texts, 20 (MHRA, 2009), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Robertson and Seth, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Robertson, Ritchie, and Catriona Seth (eds). 2009. Evariste-Désiré de Parny, Le Paradis perdu, Critical Texts, 20 (MHRA) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Robertson and Seth 2009: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Robertson and Seth 2009: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Evariste-Désiré-de-Parny-Le-Paradis-perdu www.mhra.org.uk/publications/ct-20 |
