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The emergence of literature in eighteenth-century France - The battle of the school books (Paperback)
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The emergence of literature in eighteenth-century France - The battle of the school books (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2023:02
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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
'litterature' 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 Regime
boys' colleges. Stretching back to the sixteenth century and
forward to the nineteenth, the book explores the pre-histories of
the modern ideas of 'litterature' that were propelled by this
debate, as well as their afterlives in works by La Harpe and Stael,
and in teaching practices in the Imperial lycees. 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 litterature francaise'.
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.
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