Metamorphoses du roman sentimental

XIXe-XXIe siecle

edited by Fabienne Bercegol and Helmut Meter

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Extent: 345 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: French Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Rencontres

Series volume number: 113, 26

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(December 2015)

ISBN: 9782812434945

5.94 x 8.62 inches

Price: $45.00

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(December 2015)

ISBN: 9782812434952

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The articles brought together in this volume show that sentimental literature, far from being disqualified and relegated to a mode of serial production devoid of any aesthetic pretension, remains the “secret ideal of the novel” (Alain Schaffner), an ideal which may seem outdated but which nonetheless retains a nostalgic appeal.

Fabienne Bercegol, ancienne élève de l’ENS de Paris, est professeur de littérature française à l’université Toulouse – Jean-Jaurès. Ses travaux portent sur la littérature française du début du XIXe siècle (Chateaubriand. Une poétique de la tentation), et sur le genre du portrait (Portraits dans la littérature de Gustave Flaubert à Marcel Proust).

  • Edited by Fabienne Bercegol
  • Edited by Helmut Meter