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The bourgeois drama of ""serious genre"" was one of the major innovative literary forms of the French Enlightenment, but it has been largely excluded from the canon today. In a study drawing on contemporary and 18th-century literary theory and philosophy, social history and history of the theatre, Hayes presents a reading of the dramas of Diderot and Sade and argues for a new understanding of the genre as a whole. A disparate group as they were, the ""drame's"" practitioners share a new approach to personal identity as relational and derived from the workings of the social network - a notion o

French drama --- 18th century --- History and criticism --- Domestic drama [French ] --- Diderot, Denis --- Dramatic works --- Sade --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- Middle class in literature --- Sentimentalism in literature --- Domestic drama, French --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Middle class in literature. --- Sentimentalism in literature. --- Middle classes in literature --- French domestic drama --- History and criticism. --- Diderot, Denis, --- Sade, --- Marquis de Sade, --- Sad, --- Sade, D.-A.-F. --- Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, --- Sade, Donatien-Alphonse-François, --- סדגרוב, ג׳ודי, --- Dramatic works. --- D..., --- Didero, Deni --- Diderot --- Diderot, Pantophile --- Didro, Deni --- D̲intero, D̲eni --- דידרו, דני --- דידרו, דני, --- Dīdiraw --- Dīdirū --- ‏ديدرو --- de Sade, Donatien Alphonse François --- Sade, Donatien Alphonse François de --- Donatien Alphonse François de Sade