© Peter Lang AG 2011. All rights reserved. This is the Accepted Manuscript of a work that has been published in ‘When familiar meanings dissolve…’ Essays in French Studies in Memory of Malcolm Bowie edited by Naomi D. Segal and Gill Rye in the series Romanticism and after in France / Le Romantisme et après en France (20). The original work can be found at: https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0200-4