Freedom, Slavery and Absolutism: Corneille, Pascal, Racine.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-05

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Freedom, Slavery and Absolutism: Corneille, Pascal, Racine. By ZIAD ELMARSAFY. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 196 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5548-8.

In this often stimulating study Ziad Elmarsafy sets out to read Corneille, Pascal, and Racine as (in his words) 'political theories in the guise of literature' (p. 18), arguing that all three, through...

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