Literature and Cultural History

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Course Outline

  1. Literature and Society
  2. Cultural History and Representations
  3. Institutions and Literary Constraints
  4. Romanticism and Modernity
  5. Nineteenth-Century Literary Currents
  6. Narrative Forms and Realism
  7. Orientalism and Otherness
  8. Romanticism Between Commitment and Irony

1. Literature and Society

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Cultural history : studies the knowledge, practices, representations, and sensitivities of a social group at a given moment
  • Literature and society : examines the reciprocal relationships between literary works and society at a specific moment

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  • The performance of La Muette de Portici in 1830 is presented as helping trigger a revolution, showing that theatre can act as a political catalyst.

Further detail

  • Louis de Bonald wrote that literature is the expression of society in 1789, during the French Revolution.

Memory Hook

Social structures β†’ literary forms and themes

2. Cultural History and Representations

Key Concepts & Definitions

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1. What principle defines art for art’s sake and links it to the birth of Parnassianism in 1841?

2. What distinguishes modern literary models from the models favored by classicists?

3. What was Bonaparte attempting to demonstrate through his 1797 campaign in Egypt?

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What does cultural history study in a social group?

Knowledge, practices, representations, and sensitivities at a given moment.

What does the study of literature and society examine?

Reciprocal relationships between literary works and society at a specific moment.

Who wrote that literature is the expression of society in 1789?

Louis de Bonald.

In which year did Louis de Bonald write about literature as society's expression?

1789.

What event was ongoing when Louis de Bonald wrote about literature in 1789?

The French Revolution.

What did the 1830 performance of La Muette de Portici help trigger?

A revolution.

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