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Le roman au XIXe siècle ou la littérature-livre

Alain Vaillant and Éric Terouanne
p. 15-34

Abstracts

La Comédie humaine popularized the commonplace image of the perversion of literature by trade and ill-founded values of journalism, as well as the anathemas uttered at it by Balzac. In fact, beyond the conjonctural development of press under the July monarchy,the XIXth century knows a significant mutation, which involves the vey nature of literature. Substituting itself to the Antiquity-inherited model of literary creation which, directly or not, made it depend on some art of good saying, a new paradigm arises which henceforth places at its center the printed text, delivered for reading to the book readership. This transition from a "speech-literature" to a "book-literature" (or from a mediatory literature to a mediatized one) deprives the author of his mastery of time and rythms of writing. It also has specifically aesthetical consequences on the modes of literary expression, the most spectacular of which is the substitution of novel for poetry as the reference genre, with all the formal and cultural implications one can easily guess: the second part of the article is devoted to studying this transfer and other connected phenomenons, on the basis of a statistical analysis of literary bibliometry data.

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References

Bibliographical reference

Alain Vaillant and Éric Terouanne, “Le roman au XIXe siècle ou la littérature-livre”Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle, 19 | 1999, 15-34.

Electronic reference

Alain Vaillant and Éric Terouanne, “Le roman au XIXe siècle ou la littérature-livre”Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle [Online], 19 | 1999, Online since 26 August 2008, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rh19/153; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rh19.153

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