Enfants perdus, enfants trouves

Dire l'abandon en Europe du XVIe au XVIIIe siecle

edited by Florence Magnot-Ogilvy and Janice Valls-Russell

Book cover: Enfants perdus, enfants trouves

Extent: 400 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, Social Sciences 

Series: Rencontres

Series volume number: 103

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(March 2015)

ISBN: 9782812433900

Price: $61.00

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This work studies the abandonment of children in Europe from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Taking social discourse into account renews literary readings. Literary analyses reveal how significant fictional models are with regard to the way society formulates and imagines the act of abandonment.


This work studies the abandonment of children in Europe from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Taking social discourse into account renews literary readings. Literary analyses reveal how significant fictional models are with regard to the way society formulates and imagines the act of abandonment.

  • Edited by Florence Magnot-Ogilvy
  • Edited by Janice Valls-Russell

Review - French Cet ouvrage invite historiens, poeticiens, specialistes d'histoire litteraire, comparatistes, philosophes, psychanalystes et anthropologues, a analyser un motif ancre dans l'histoire et codifie par la litterature : la representation sociale et litteraire de l'abandon d'enfant dans l'Europe de la Renaissance aux Lumieres. La pluridisciplinarite des approches devoile leurs convergences, leurs divergences et leurs points aveugles respectifs. La prise en compte du discours social au sens large renouvelle les lectures litteraires. Les etudes des schemas litteraires qui structurent le motif revelent la pregnance de ces modeles sur la maniere dont la societe formule, pense et imagine l'abandon et l'adoption.