| Description |
A look at the revolution in literature in the political context of the struggle to establish popular sovereignty (1789-1848). What links the crisis of representation in the political sphere to this crisis in the arts? What disjoins them? Who gets represented? Is romanticism liberal or reactionary? Can writing be democratic? Taking liberty, equality, and fraternity as a guide, along with their discontents, we set up a series of textual dialogues. Novels, theater, and essays by Chateaubriand, Mme de Stael, Constant, Guizot, Hugo, Stendhal, Balzac, Vigny, Sand, Michelet, and Baudelaire; some recent criticism. |