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Reimagining Society in 18th Century French Literature: Happiness and Human Rights de Jonas Ross Kjærgård

Reimagining Society in 18th Century French Literature: Happiness and Human Rights: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Autor Jonas Ross Kjærgård
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2020
The French revolutionary shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty came clothed in a new political language, a significant part of which was a strange coupling of happiness and rights. In Old Regime ideology, Frenchmen were considered subjects who had no need of understanding why what was prescribed to them would be in the interest of their happiness. The 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen equipped the French with a list of inalienable rights and if society would respect those rights, the happiness of all would materialize.


This volume explores the authors of fictional literature who contributed alongside pamphleteers, politicians, and philosophers to the establishment of this new political arena, filled with sometimes vague, yet insisting notions of happiness and rights. The shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty and the corollary transition from subjects to citizens culminated in the summer of 1789 but it was preceded by an immense piece of imaginative work.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367666415
ISBN-10: 0367666413
Pagini: 238
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Table of Contents




List of Figures




Preface




Introduction


Happiness and the Politics of Words


The Political Anthropology of Happiness and Rights


Literature




Chapter I: The Unfinished Declaration


Debating the Declaration


Nature and Society


Rights and Duties


Enmity and Passive Citizenship


Literature




Chapter II: What Was Literature?


The Author-Politician and the Code of History


Louis-Sébastien Mercier and the Re-Awakening of Patriotic Virtue


Choderlos de Laclos’ Reinterpretation of Dulce et Utile


Marie-Joseph Chénier and the Author-Legislator


Literature




Chapter III: Louis-Sébastien Mercier and the Dream of a Happy Future


Temporality in Mercier’s Utopian Thought


The Form of Government in L’an 2440


Taxation and the Duty of Patriotism


Literature




Chapter IV: The Search for Order in Choderlos de Laclos’ Liaisons dangereuses


Laclos and the Politics of Social Forms


The Rhythm of Social Forms


The Hierarchies of Social Forms


Literature




Chapter V: The Regeneration of the State in Marie-Joseph Chénier’s Fénelon ou les religieuses de Cambrai


Convent Life and Paternal Inflexibility


The Problem of Humanness


Political Agency　: From Unhappiness to Happiness


The Tableau Vivant: The Politics of the Happy Ending


Literature




Conclusion


Literature




Index

Notă biografică

Jonas Ross Kjærgård, PhD, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University and recipient of the EliteResearch travel grant. He acquired his PhD degree at Aarhus University, Denmark, with a dissertation on French Revolutionary rights and literature. He has published articles and book chapters on literature and the French revolution and edited the volume Discursive Framings of Human Rights: Negotiating Agency and Victimhood (with Karen-Margrethe Simonsen), published by Birkbeck Law Press. He has begun a new research project on the literary history of the Haitian revolution.

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This volume explores the authors of fictional literature who contributed alongside pamphleteers, politicians, and philosophers to the establishment of this new political arena, filled with sometimes vague, yet insisting notions of happiness and rights.