In the 1850es, the Second Empire settles in after five stormy decades that unveil the vanity of temporal power. The legitimist writers Sophie Rostoptchine, countess de Ségur, and Victorine Monniot, have left a deep imprint in the education of Second Empire young ladies. Their teaching, which taps on practical interpretation of Cahtolic catechism illustrate the Christian principles of renunciation taught by the memento mori while echoing the anguishes of the time. The article aims to study the presence of vanity as a pedagogical tool in Le Journal de Marguerite (1858) and the cycle of Sophie (1858-1859) and to highlight the links between these edifying novels and the fears expressed by Baudelaire and Edmond de Goncourt.Les années 1850 voient...
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Often perceived as the result of empirical speculation, the sanatorium, intended for the treatment o...
There is no fiction in narrative prose that testifies to a playful intentionality more manifest than...
As a substitute father figure, a mentor, a tutor and a writer to be admired and imitated, Barbey d’A...
Les années 1850 voient s’installer le Second Empire après un demi-siècle houleux où s’illustre la va...
At its peak in the 17th century, Vanity, thanks to its codification, persists beyond that age favour...
Could vanities be the overlooked essence of so-called ‘libertine’ fiction? 18th century French eroti...
According to Emil Cioran, every human being is “full of the conviction that all is vain.” But Cioran...
During the first half of the 19th century, contradances, made up of displacements and interactions b...
This article aims to highlight the importance of memory in the poetic practice of Léopold Sédar Seng...
La vanité, dans sa représentation la plus générale, nous invite à arrêter quelques instants notre co...
The caricature, in its most elementary representation, in its polysemy, its multiple extensions, ref...
This paper examines the way in which Marivaux, in The Life of Marianne, plays at “making it true” by...
This paper confronts versified positivist propaganda (Du Camp) with lyrical and visionary prose of S...
What is the value of play for a reader when the literary text itself is radically conceived as a lud...
This paper deals with the theme of memory in the novel Mémoires d ’un ange maladroit by Francis Dann...
Often perceived as the result of empirical speculation, the sanatorium, intended for the treatment o...
There is no fiction in narrative prose that testifies to a playful intentionality more manifest than...
As a substitute father figure, a mentor, a tutor and a writer to be admired and imitated, Barbey d’A...