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Les Lumieres catholiques et le roman francais

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Les Lumieres catholiques et le roman francais

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Au siecle des Lumieres, le roman de nature edifiante emprunte de nouvelles avenues, embrassant la forme didactique et le parti antiphilosophique. Au contact des idees et des valeurs que defendent Encyclopedistes et philosophes, les romanciers et les romancieres sont amenes a s'interroger sur la religion dans ses rapports sociaux et moraux avec la societe et a assortir les acquis philosophiques aux dogmes chretiens a l'aide d'un discours alliant foi et raison. En mobilisant la sensibilite, ils proposent un expedient pieux selon lequel la religion serait mise au service de l'ordre etabli et de la cohesion sociale. Le discours optimiste que donnent a lire les romans des Lumieres catholiques renoue avec l'idee de perfectibilite humaine et de progres social, devoilant un espace de chevauchement qui brouille les frontieres entre philosophie et antiphilosophie et qui temoigne de leur porosite. Cet ouvrage collectif a pour objectifs d'explorer les entreprises de mise en roman des Lumieres catholiques dans leurs dimensions narrative, rhetorique, topique et philosophique afin d'en souligner l'originalite et la complexite, d'exposer leur apport aux debats qui marquent le XVIIIe siecle et de les rehabiliter dans la constellation litteraire des Lumieres. --- In the eighteenth century, edifying novels explored new strategies, embracing the didactic form and the antiphilosophic party. Confronted with the ideas and values that the Encyclopaedists and philosophers defended, Catholic novelists were led to consider religion in its moral and social relationships to society and to reconcile philosophical findings and Christian doctrines by producing discourses on the union of faith and reason. By mobilizing sensibility, they propose a pious expedient whereby religion would serve the established order and maintain social cohesion. The optimistic discourse found in the novels of the Catholic Enlightenment is characterised by its belief in human perfectibility and social progress, which reveals an in-between space where the line separating philosophy from anti-philosophy is blurred and shown to be quite porous. This edited collection aims to study the novelistic experiments of the Catholic Enlightenment in their narrative, rhetorical, topical, and philosophical dimensions in order to show their originality and complexity, to reveal their contributions in the great debates of the eighteenth century, and to give them back their due place in the literary constellation of the Enlightenment.

Author Biography:

Isabelle Tremblay est professeure agregee au College militaire royal du Canada. Au nombre de ses publications, on compte Le Bonheur au feminin: strategies narratives des romancieres des Lumieres (Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2012) et Les Fantomes du roman epistolaire d'Ancien Regime: l'interlocuteur absent dans la fiction monophonique (Brill - Rodopi, 2018).
Release date Australia
January 14th, 2019
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributor
  • Edited by Isabelle Tremblay
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Voltaire Foundation
Pages
288
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
ISBN-13
9781786941411
Product ID
28517244

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