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Regressive Fictions - Graffigny, Rousseau, Bernardin (Paperback)
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Regressive Fictions - Graffigny, Rousseau, Bernardin (Paperback)
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In a cultural shift around the mid-point of the French eighteenth
century, the mode of wit is increasingly displaced by bourgeois
pathos. Social sophistication and sexual experience are rejected in
favour of a retreat into ideal imagination. Instead of the novel of
worldliness, we encounter fictions of better worlds: original,
natural, familial, innocent and harmonious, protected against
reality and time. The regressive shift is traced in this study in
general terms, and then through detailed analysis of three of the
best-selling novels of the period. The turning-point is represented
by Mme de Graffignys Lettres dune Peruvienne (1747, 1752) with its
profound ambivalence towards knowledge. A new order is revealed and
set out, but still declared lacking, in Rousseaus Julie, ou la
Nouvelle Heloise (1761). The visionary return to the organic
wholeness of nature is offered by Bernardins Paul et Virginie
(1788).
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