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Apologie De Raimond Sebond
Author_Angelica Goodden
autobiographical narrative
Captatio Benevolentiae
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cognitive memory theory
Des Grieux
Discours De La
eighteenth-century philosophy
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Fragonard's Painting
Fragonard’s Painting
French Enlightenment literature
Je Ne
Jeune Homme
La Religieuse
La Tour
Le Fils Naturel
Le Moi
Le Temps
Les Confessions
Les Egarements
Les Egarements Du
literary selfhood analysis
Manon Lescaut
memory and identity in French writing
Mlle De Lespinasse
Mme De
Mme De Graffigny
Mme De Merteuil
Montaigne's Project
Montaigne's Writing
Montaigne’s Project
Montaigne’s Writing
self-representation studies
Superior Moral Character
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781900755313
- Weight: 317g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Theories of memory and fictional recreations of the remembering mind have occupied a central place in French literature since Montaigne. The author investigates the shifting relation between cognitive or "scientific" memory and emotional or spiritual recollection in a series of major writers from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Her study focuses on the 18th century, where the interplay between memory and imagination and the link between self-knowledge and self-presentation are shown to be exceptionally fertile. The philosophical, scientific and fictional writings of Diderot and the novels and autobiographical works of Rousseau are central to this ground-breaking work, which should be of interest to all readers concerned with the specificity of the French literary tradition.
Angelica Goodden is Fellow and Tutor in French at St Hilda's College, Oxford. Her previous books include Actio and Persuasion: Dramatic Performance in Eighteenth-Century France (1986), The Complete Lover: Eros, Nature and Artifice in the Eighteenth-Century French Novel (1989) and The Sweetness of Life: A Biography of Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun (1997).
