Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment: Delimiting Genre

by Fabienne Moore

By examining nearly sixty works, the author traces the prehistory of the French prose poem, demonstrating that the disquiet of some eighteenth-century writers with the Enlightenment gave rise to the genre nearly a century before it is habitually supposed to have existed. In the throes of momentous scientific, philosophical, and socioeconomic changes, Enlightenment authors turned to the past to revive sources such as Homer, the pastoral, Ossian, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113862022X
• ISBN13: 9781138620223
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 330 Pages