The emergence of literature in eighteenth-century France
Voltaire Foundation (Verlag)
978-1-80207-762-9 (ISBN)
{::}{::}The emergence of literature in eighteenth-century France changes our understanding of when, how and why modern ideas of literature emerged in France. Using a unique blend of literary and digital methods, it argues that it was in the mid eighteenth century, rather than the nineteenth (as many have claimed), that the word ‘littérature’ first came to refer to a canon of classics, an aesthetically pleasing text, and a subject that could be studied in schools. These ideas, the book shows, were propelled by a forgotten quarrel about how to reform literary teaching in the Ancien Régime boys’ collèges. *
* Stretching back to the sixteenth century and forward to the nineteenth, the book explores the pre-histories of the modern ideas of ‘littérature’ that were propelled by this debate, as well as their afterlives in works by La Harpe and Staël, and in teaching practices in the Imperial lycées. One of the first studies to use social network analysis to map an early modern debate, the book shows that Rousseau was not straightforwardly ‘the’ central actor in eig teenth-century debates about education. And it draws on new archival research to reveal that the Ecole royale militaire (founded by Louis XV in 1751) was one of the first institutions to teach something called ‘la littérature française’. *
* Ultimately, by intertwining the histories of education, quarrels and intellectual networks, this book tells a new story about how France became the famously literary nation it is today.{::}
Gemma Tidman is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research focuses on early modern (particularly eighteenth-century) French literature and cultural history, and she has work published in French Studies, Romanic Review, and with the Voltaire Foundation.
Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of abbreviations
Introduction: A Tale of Two
Histories
A Quarrel
Littérature
Methodologies
Outline
1.
Querelles
littéraires: Disputes about Literature and Learning in Early
Modern France
Bonæ literæ
Inside
and Outside the Collèges
Belles-lettres
Legitimising French
Literary
Manuals
Collège Critics
2.
The Perfect Storm. Prequels and Pré-querelles to
the Querelle des Collèges
‘Collège’
and ‘École militaire’
Jesuits
Rousseau and the collèges
Emile’s First Books
Littérature for Emile
Lost (and Found) in Battle
3.
The Querelle
on the Page: Part One
Setting
the Agenda
Teacher
Training
Latin
vs. French
A
Paradoxical Querelleur
Five
Minutes’ Peace
Resurrecting
d’Alembert
4.
The Querelle
on the Page: Part Two
Fringe
Benefits
Revisiting Rousseau
An Ancient vs. Moderns
Enemies and Allies
An End in Sight?
5.
A Literary
Offensive
Early
Years
Literary
Incursions
A New
School
Revolution
Quarrels
in the Library
Batteux’s
littérature
Great
Literature, Great Men
6.
The Emergence of Littérature
Littérature and the
Collèges: Past, Present, Future
The Querelle in the Lycée
Normalising
littérature
Reactions
to De la littérature
Back to belles-lettres
The
Re-emergence of littérature
Conclusion
Corpus of the Querelle des collèges
Alphabetical List of Actors in
the Querelle des collèges
Appendices
Constituting
the Corpus, Database, and Network Visualisations
Graphs
based on Google Books’s NGram Data
Contents
of Xaupi’s Volume (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
‘Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de l’hotel de
l’École royale militaire, du 1er décembre 1765 au 1er
mars 1776 – Poètes français’
‘Catalogue des livres de lecture à l’usage de Mrs. les
élèves, qui se sont trouvé exister au dépôt de la bibliothèque le 10 mars 1776’
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.01.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment ; 2023:02 |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Liverpool |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80207-762-6 / 1802077626 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80207-762-9 / 9781802077629 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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