Abstract

Prévost’s memoir-novel, L’Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, engages with the challenges of deploying traditional modes of literary description (characterology and allegorization) in the nascent reign of finance capitalism. This article examines the interrelationship between abstraction and material existence in the early eighteenth-century French bestseller Manon Lescaut. By underscoring the ambivalences of class ideology via the context of financial revolution, I argue that Prévost experiments with a new moral economy of selfhood that grapples with, and perhaps ultimately loosens itself from, the strictures of ancien régime social identity.

中文翻译：

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马农·莱斯考特（Manon Lescaut）早期金融资本主义中的自我

摘要

普雷沃斯特的回忆录小说《骑士史》和《马农·莱斯考特历史》在金融资本主义兴起的初期就面临着采用传统文学描述模式（字符学和寓言化）的挑战。本文探讨了18世纪早期法国畅销书Manon Lescaut中抽象与物质存在之间的相互关系。通过在金融革命的背景下强调阶级意识形态的矛盾性，我认为普雷沃斯特尝试了一种新的自我道德道德经济，这种道德经济学可以应对甚至最终使自己摆脱古代制度社会身份的束缚。