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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Atkinson, Juliette
Titre(s) : French novels and the Victorians [Texte imprimé] / Juliette Atkinson
Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press for the British academy, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-426 p.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm
Collection : A British academy monograph
Lien à la collection : A British academy monograph
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [361]-402. Index
In 1836, John Wilson Croker, having immersed himself in dozens of contemporary French
novels, warned his readers that 'she who dares to read a single page of the hundred
thousand licentious pages with which the last five years have indundated society,
is lost for ever.' It has become common to build an opposition between the attitudes
towards fiction held in prudish Victorian England and permissive 19th-century France.
The lack of a full-length study of 19th-century Anglo-French literary relations means,
however, that the rejection of French novels has been greatly exaggerated. French
Novels and the Victorians sheds new light on these relations by exploring the enormous
impact of French fiction on the Victorian reading public. The book considers the many
different ties built between the two countries in the publishing industry, identifying
how French novels could be accessed and by whom, as well as who promoted and who resisted
the importation of Continental works in England and why. The book reflects on what
'immorality' meant to both critics and the readers they sought to warn, and how the
notion was subjected to scrutiny through censorship debates as well as the fictional
representations of readers. It also tackles the contemporary preoccupation with literary
influence, and explores how the extensive circulation of French fiction in England
affected the concept of a 'national' literature
Sujet(s) : Roman français -- 19e siècle
Roman français -- 19e siècle -- Aspect moral
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780197266090 (rel). - ISBN 0197266096 (rel)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45293230k
Notice n° :
FRBNF45293230
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