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The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction (Paperback)
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The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction (Paperback)
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The rise of the novel paradigm-and the underlying homology between
the rise of a bourgeois middle class and the coming of age of a new
literary genre-continues to influence the way we analyze economic
discourse in the eighteenth-century French novel. Characters are
often seen as portraying bourgeois values, even when
historiographical evidence points to the virtual absence of a
self-conscious and coherent bourgeoisie in France in the early
modern period. Likewise, the fact that the nobility was a dynamic
and diverse group whose members had learned to think in
individualistic and meritocratic terms as a result of courtly
politics is often ignored. The Other Rise of the Novel calls for a
radical revision of how realism, the language of self-interest and
commercial exchanges, and idealized noble values interact in the
early modern novel. It focuses on two novels from the seventeenth
century, Furetiere's Roman bourgeois and Lafayette's Princesse de
Cleves and four novels from the eighteenth century, Prevost's Manon
Lescaut, Graffigny's Lettres d'une Peruvienne, Rousseau's La
Nouvelle Heloise and Sade's Les infortunes de la vertu. It argues
that eighteenth-century French fiction does not reflect material
culture mimetically and that character action is best analyzed by
focusing on the social and discursive exchanges staged by the text,
rather than by trying to create parallels between specific behavior
and actual historical changes. The novel produces its own reality
by transforming characters and their stories into alternative
social models, different articulations of how individuals should
define their economic relations to others. The representation of
interpersonal relations often highlights personal conceptions of
private interest that cannot be easily reconciled with the
traditional narrative of a transition towards economic modernity.
Realism, then, is not only about verisimilar storytelling and
psychological depth: it is an epistemological questioning about the
type of access to reality that a particular genre can give its
readers.
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