Juliette Atkinson, French Novels and the Victorians
What do we understand by the term ‘French novel’? Beyond the denotation of novels written in French, the connotations of the term vary according to time, place and the motive of the speaker, be it aesthetic, commercial, moralising or political. Concerning the nineteenth century, the simplistic assu...
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2019
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| Summary: | What do we understand by the term ‘French novel’? Beyond the denotation of novels written in French, the connotations of the term vary according to time, place and the motive of the speaker, be it aesthetic, commercial, moralising or political. Concerning the nineteenth century, the simplistic assumption is that Victorian Britain was prudish in comparison to post-revolutionary permissive France; as a result, ‘French novels’ became shorthand for questionable morals in regard to the overt repr... |
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