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History and the literary : a method of interdisciplinary enquiry into seventeenth- to twentieth-century France /

This book makes available in English for the first time the work of the pioneering French interdisciplinary research group, Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur l'Histoire du Littéraire, better known as the GRIHL. Founded in 1997 by the historian, Christian Jouhaud, and the sociologist of...

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Main Author: Jouhaud, Christian (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author: Voltaire Foundation (sponsoring body.)
Other Authors: Tunstall, Kate E. (Editor, Translator, Contributor), Morfee, Adrian (Translator), Petrick, Vicki-Marie (Translator), Soudan, Cécile (Translator), Viala, Alain (Contributor), Cantillon, Alain (Contributor), Giavarini, Laurence (Contributor), Ribard, Dinah (Contributor), Schapira, Nicolas (Contributor), Bombart, Mathilde (Contributor), Cavaillé, Jean-Pierre (Contributor), Houdard, Sophie (Contributor), Lyon-Caen, Judith (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:All contributions translated from French into English.
Published: Liverpool : Published by Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, [2025].
Series:Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2025:01.
Subjects:
Interdisciplinary research.
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
French literature > Research.
France > Study and teaching.
Table of Contents:
  • General introduction / Christian Jouhaud and Kate Tunstall
  • Racine, literary strategy and interest / Alain Viala
  • Pt. 1. Opening moves.
  • Writing and action : an introduction / Alain Cantillon, Laurence Giavarini, Dinah Ribard and Nicolas Schapira
  • Places : locating writings and writing actions : introduction / Mathilde Bombart and Alain Cantillon
  • History of the book, history through the book, history of literature / Dinah Ribard and Nicolas Schapira
  • Towards a history of publication / Christian Jouhaud and Alain Viala
  • Pt. 2. Three things to think with.
  • Les Caractères : the knowledge of literature / Laurence Giavarini
  • Lanturlu : writings of a revolt in Ancien Régime France / Nicolas Schapira
  • Irreligion and gender relations in the early modern era : case studies / Jean-Pierre Cavaillé and Sophie Houdard
  • Pt. 3. Seeing the past.
  • Seeing the past in Romantic ruins : a political and literary history / Judith Lyon-Caen
  • Seeing and not seeing with Commissaire Maigret / Christian Jouhaud
  • Who's there? Seeing Watteau with Pierre Michon / Alain Viala.