Private pain and the public temper

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dc.contributor.authorO'Donovan, Patrick
dc.contributor.editorWatt, Adam
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-05T11:21:34Z
dc.date.available2021-03-05T11:21:34Z
dc.date.issued2021-02-25
dc.date.updated2021-03-05T10:59:43Z
dc.description.abstractThe chapter describes the emergence of the personal novel in the first decade of the nineteenth century and its subsequent evolution thirty years later in parallel with the rise of the historical novel in France. These developments were shaped by changes in book production and readership after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, leading in the 1830s to the increasing professionalization of writing. While maintaining a narrative focus on the experience of insoluble personal conflicts, the personal novel is as much concerned with the transformations and conflicts of post-Revolutionary life as with an altered private domain. Though eclipsed by the realist novel in the middle part of the century, it exerted a prolonged influence, formal as well as thematic, on fiction in Europe and beyond for 100 years or more. The kinds of motivations to which the protagonists of the personal novel appeal, because these imply a break with received belief systems, tend to be sources of scandal. The fictions themselves border on scandal in representing the reasons for these outcomes and also show how challenging it is for those who witness such actions to evaluate or respond to them. The forms through which fiction performs this role would prove to be adaptable to the representation of quite different subsequent social changes. Thus, from the 1830s the novel displays increasing ideological militancy, notably in the work of Sand.en
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dc.identifier.citationO'Donovan, P. (2021) 'Private pain and the public temper', in Watt, A. (Ed.), The Cambridge History of the Novel in French, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 275-291. doi: 10.1017/9781108683920.020en
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/9781108683920en
dc.identifier.endpage291en
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-108-49707-7
dc.identifier.startpage275en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11117
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11117
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofThe Cambridge History of the Novel in French
dc.relation.urihttps://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-history-of-the-novel-in-french/5BB496D480E15DFB7BCE3A4465049E36
dc.rights© Cambridge University Press 2021. This material has been published in revised form in The Cambridge History of the Novel in French edited by Adam Watt, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108683920. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution or re-use.en
dc.subjectBenjamin Constanten
dc.subjectFormen
dc.subjectFreedomen
dc.subjectFrench Revolutionen
dc.subjectHistorical novelen
dc.subjectVictor Hugoen
dc.subjectPersonal novelen
dc.subjectSainte-Beuveen
dc.subjectGeorge Sanden
dc.subjectFrançois-René de Chateaubrianden
dc.subject~French - Book Chapters~en
dc.titlePrivate pain and the public temperen
dc.typeBook chapteren
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