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A. Lewis, Sensibility, Reading and Illustration: Spectacles and Signs in Graffigny, Marivaux and Rousseau

A. Lewis, Sensibility, Reading and Illustration: Spectacles and Signs in Graffigny, Marivaux and Rousseau

Publié le par Florian Pennanech (Source : Ann Lewis)

Ann Lewis, Sensibility, Reading and Illustration: Spectacles and Signs in Graffigny, Marivaux and Rousseau

Oxford : Legenda, 2009, 310 p.


  • ISBN-13 : 9781905981960 
  • Prix : £45.00 ($89.50 US)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Eighteenth-centurysensibilité has always been controversial. In fact, the term itselfrefers to complex forms of physical and emotional responsiveness, andLewis's study investigates the fictional exploration of various keyproblems of sentimental response. These are analysed in conjunctionwith some of the actual (often emotional) reactions that the term, itsfictions and images have provoked through time, including anindispensable survey of the varying construction of sensibilité as anobject of study. Lewis provides a new reading of the theme ofsensibility by analysing the 'textual images' in three best-sellingnovels from the mid-century: Graffigny's Lettres d'une Péruvienne,Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne and Rousseau's Julie. The examination ofa largely neglected corpus of illustrations, understood as readings ofeach text, provides striking new evidence of the complexity, thematicrichness and duplicity of these 'spectacles' and 'signs'.

Ann Lewis is a Lecturer in French at Birkbeck College, University of London.