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Les lumières catholiques et le roman français, sous la direction de Isabelle Tremblay

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"In the eighteenth century, edifying novels explored new strategies, embracing the didactic form and the antiphilosophic party. Confronted with the ideas and values that the Encyclopaedists and philosophers defended, Catholic novelists were led to consider religion in its moral and social relationships to society and to reconcile philosophical findings and Christian doctrines by producing discourses on the union of faith and reason. By mobilizing sensibility, they propose a pious expedient whereby religion would serve the established order and maintain social cohesion. The optimistic discourse found in the novels of the Catholic Enlightenment is characterised by its belief in human perfectibility and social progress, which reveals an in-between space where the line separating philosophy from anti-philosophy is blurred and shown to be quite porous. This edited collection aims to study the novelistic experiments of the Catholic Enlightenment in their narrative, rhetorical, topical, and philosophical dimensions in order to show their originality and complexity, to reveal their contributions in the great debates of the eighteenth century, and to give them back their due place in the literary constellation of the Enlightenment"--Publisher
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Les lumières catholiques et le roman français
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Les lumières catholiques et le roman français
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sous la direction de Isabelle Tremblay
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Summary
"In the eighteenth century, edifying novels explored new strategies, embracing the didactic form and the antiphilosophic party. Confronted with the ideas and values that the Encyclopaedists and philosophers defended, Catholic novelists were led to consider religion in its moral and social relationships to society and to reconcile philosophical findings and Christian doctrines by producing discourses on the union of faith and reason. By mobilizing sensibility, they propose a pious expedient whereby religion would serve the established order and maintain social cohesion. The optimistic discourse found in the novels of the Catholic Enlightenment is characterised by its belief in human perfectibility and social progress, which reveals an in-between space where the line separating philosophy from anti-philosophy is blurred and shown to be quite porous. This edited collection aims to study the novelistic experiments of the Catholic Enlightenment in their narrative, rhetorical, topical, and philosophical dimensions in order to show their originality and complexity, to reveal their contributions in the great debates of the eighteenth century, and to give them back their due place in the literary constellation of the Enlightenment"--Publisher
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non fiction
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1981-
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Tremblay, Isabelle
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Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment,
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2019:01
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  • Religious fiction, French
  • Religious fiction, French
  • Didactic fiction, French
  • Didactic fiction, French
  • Enlightenment
  • Didactic fiction, French
  • Enlightenment
  • Religious fiction, French
  • France
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Les lumières catholiques et le roman français, sous la direction de Isabelle Tremblay
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-266) and index
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24 cm
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viii, 274 pages
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9781786941411
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2018439763
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(OCoLC)1039467482
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Les lumières catholiques et le roman français, sous la direction de Isabelle Tremblay
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-266) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1039467482
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
viii, 274 pages
Isbn
9781786941411
Lccn
2018439763
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
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(OCoLC)1039467482

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