From Savage to Citizen: The Invention of the Peasant in the French EnlightenmentUniversity of Delaware Press, 2004 - 252 páginas From Savage to Citizen examines the invention of the peasant in the literature, theater, and painting of the French Enlightenment. It contends that, much like the noble savage, the peasant is one of the major constructions of the Enlightenment, and that its articulation and development are consonant with changes in the social order and the development of bourgeois ideologies over the course of the century. the self-made man, family values, and patriotic ideals through the works of writers such as Marivaux, Rousseau, Favart, Sedaine, Marmontel, and Retif de la Bretonne and the painters Watteau, Greuze, and Fragonard. A final section considers the contradictions inherent to Enlightenment constructions of the peasantry through an analysis of agricultural policy, debates on popular education and feudal servitude, and contemporary travel accounts. Filling an important gap in French literary and cultural criticism, the book shows how images of the country and its inhabitants played a key role in the development of modern conceptions of the French nation and citizen. |
Contenido
Inventing the Peasant in Enlightenment France | 13 |
The Politics of Rural Representation | 16 |
Culture and Ideology in the Enlightenment and Beyond | 30 |
The Peasant as Aristocrat Masquerade and Society in the Works of Marivaux and Watteau | 35 |
Social Mobility and Cultural Change in the Early Eighteenth Century | 38 |
Class and Clothing in the Works of marivaux | 41 |
Watteau and the Theatricality of Class Identity | 59 |
The Sentimental Peasant Moral Economy and the Social Hierarchy in Mid Century | 71 |
Anonymous Crowds Secret Chambers and Urban Corruption in Retif de la Bretonne | 118 |
Moral Policing and the Collective Gaze in Retifs Rural Communities | 131 |
Morality and Sexuality in Fragonards Canvases | 140 |
Peasant and Revolution Confronting Fiction and Reality at the End of the Century | 151 |
Progress and Paradoxes | 156 |
Young Legrand dAussy and the Challenge to Enlightenment Constructions of the Peasant | 161 |
Social Consciousness Rural Revolt and Revolution | 171 |
The Peasant Today | 191 |
The Aesthetics and Politics of Rural Representation in the Mid Eighteenth Century | 74 |
Patriarchal Society or Fraternal Community? Views of the Countryside in Favart Sedaine and Marmontel | 81 |
Family Drama and the Social Imaginary in Greuzes Rural Canvases | 97 |
The Country and the City Rural Family Values and Urban Dissolution in Retif de la Bretonne and Fragonard | 111 |
Demographic Change and Moral Nostalgia in Late EighteenthCentury France | 115 |
Notes | 198 |
Bibliography | 229 |
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From Savage to Citizen: The Invention of the Peasant in the French Enlightenment Amy S. Wyngaard Vista de fragmentos - 2004 |
From Savage to Citizen: The Invention of the Peasant in the French Enlightenment Amy S. Wyngaard Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
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The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought Daniel Brewer Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |