Historicity of the world. Balzac reader of Walter Scott
This paper puts forward some propositions about the critical reception of Walter Scott's historical novel by Honoré de Balzac, in the 1820s and 1830s, on the axis of his novels Waverley and Les Chouans, respectively. The first proposition refers to the critical operation by which Scott's h...
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Departamento de Letras - Facultad de Humanidade
2024
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| Sumario: | This paper puts forward some propositions about the critical reception of Walter Scott's historical novel by Honoré de Balzac, in the 1820s and 1830s, on the axis of his novels Waverley and Les Chouans, respectively. The first proposition refers to the critical operation by which Scott's historical novel configures in Balzac the objective of the historical narration of manners, which is articulated in the system of The Human Comedy as “Études de Moeurs”. Secondly, this same critique, which extends to the historical novel of the French Romantics (Hugo, Vigny, Mérimée), implies the definition of a "historical realism", a representation of common life in history rather than great political events. Thirdly, Balzac receives from Scott a conception of the passion of love as constitutively political, as well as a historical, dynamic understanding of language. Finally, the realisms of both authors are shaped, in part, by operations of "domestication" of Gothic literature. |
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