Roman d’amour et roman domestique: mutations du genre au tournant du XVIIIe siècle
Shelly Charles, CNRS
Volume 17, no. 3, April 2005
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ABSTRACT
«L’amour est toujours l’objet principal des romans », affirme Mme de Staël en 1795 dans son Essai sur les fictions. Cette définition thématique courante du genre romanesque ne revient plus, à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, à un simple constat qui explique éventuellement la nature suspecte d’un genre mineur: il s’agit maintenant de la condamnation de ce déplorable état de fait et d’un urgent appel à un amendement.
Other ECF articles on the topic of “Domesticity” include:
Opening the Phosphoric “Envelope”: Scientific Appraisal, Domestic Spectacle, and (Un)”Reasonable Creatures” in Edgeworth’s Belinda
by NICOLE M. WRIGHT (ECF 24.3, Spring 2012)
Histories of Female Progress in Memoirs of Modern Philosophers
by JULIE MURRAY (ECF 22.4, Summer 2010)
Out of Egypt and into England: Secrecy and State in Samuel Pratt’s Family Secrets,”
by JAMES CRUISE (ECF 22.2, Winter 2010)
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