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Sensibility, Reading and Illustration
Ann Lewis
其他書名
Spectacles and Signs in Graffigny, Marivaux and Rousseau
出版Legenda, 2009
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century
ISBN19059819619781905981960
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=scyqzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Eighteenth-century sensibilite has always been controversial. In fact, the term itself refers to complex forms of physical and emotional responsiveness, and Lewiss study investigates the fictional exploration of various key problems of sentimental response that were at the heart of eighteenth-century moral, epistemological and aesthetic debates. These are analysed in conjunction with some of the actual (often emotional) responses that the term, its fictions and images have provoked through time, including an indispensable survey of the varying construction of sensibilite as an object of study, and the polemics subtending its definition. The verbal evocation of the visual in the form of spectacles and signs was understood in the eighteenth century as having an especially powerful impact. Lewis provides a new reading of the theme of sensibility by analysing the textual images in three best-selling novels from the mid-century: Graffignys Lettres dune Peruvienne, Marivauxs La Vie de Marianne and Rousseaus Julie. The examination of a largely neglected corpus of illustrations, understood as readings of each text, provides striking new evidence of the complexity, thematic richness and duplicity of these spectacles, whose power to provoke different reactions is perhaps their most interesting characteristic. Ann Lewis is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London.