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Examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in
Spain and France: Cervantes's Don Quijote, Zayas's Desenganos
amorosos, Scarron's Roman comique, Cyrano de Bergerac's L'Autre
Monde, and Mme. de Lafayette's Zayde. This book enables upper level
students and scholars to see how the authors use the developing
form of the novel to engage in skeptical inquiry. This book allows
students and scholars of early modern literature, history and
philosophy to see how the novel can shed new light on the period by
exploring how literature becomes a means to express these
differences and put them in productive dialogue. By identifying the
philosophic stakes of these literary works, this book shows
students and scholars how these novels are part of the larger
skeptical turn of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century
in Europe enabling them to see the importance of studying
literature alongside history and philosophy.
Examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in
Spain and France: Cervantes's Don Quijote, Zayas's Desenganos
amorosos, Scarron's Roman comique, Cyrano de Bergerac's L'Autre
Monde, and Mme. de Lafayette's Zayde. This book enables upper level
students and scholars to see how the authors use the developing
form of the novel to engage in skeptical inquiry. This book allows
students and scholars of early modern literature, history and
philosophy to see how the novel can shed new light on the period by
exploring how literature becomes a means to express these
differences and put them in productive dialogue. By identifying the
philosophic stakes of these literary works, this book shows
students and scholars how these novels are part of the larger
skeptical turn of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century
in Europe enabling them to see the importance of studying
literature alongside history and philosophy.
Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France analyzes the work of
several literary critics in France and England, at the end of the
seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, who were
inspired by the idea that literature - especially the literary
sublime - might offer us the deepest kind of knowledge. Dominique
Bouhours, Nicolas Boileau, Rene Rapin, John Dennis, and the abbe
Dubos believed that literature could deliver truths that transcend
our world and were analogous or even equal to the truths of divine
revelation. Ann Delehanty argues that this shift towards the
transcendental realm pushed the definition of the literary work
away from describing its objective properties and towards its
effects on the mind of the reader. After placing these ideas about
literature in the context of the religious and philosophical
thinking of Blaise Pascal, Delehanty traces the evolution of a
debate about literature in the writings of the critics in question.
They embraced theories of sentiment and the passions as the
epistemological means of identifying and knowing the transcendental
aspects of a literary work that eventually came to be known as
aesthetics. By tracing the historical evolution of the relationship
between transcendentalism and aesthetics in French and English
neoclassical thought, Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France
provides new and engaging insights into an important moment in our
literary history.
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