From savage to citizen : the invention of the peasant in the French Enlightenment / Amy S. Wyngaard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyngaard, Amy S., 1970-

Series:

University of Delaware Press studies in 17th- and 18th- century art and culture

The University of Delaware Press studies in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century art and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--18th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Peasants in literature.

Art, French--18th century.

Art, French.

Peasants in art.

Physical Description:

252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2004]

Contents:

Introduction: Inventing the Peasant in Enlightenment France 13

The Politics of Rural Representation, 1607-1719 16

Culture and Ideology in the Enlightenment and Beyond 30

1. The Peasant as Aristocrat: Masquerade and Society in the Works of Marivaux and Watteau 35

Social Mobility and Cultural Change in the Early Eighteenth Century 38

Class and Clothing in the Works of Marivaux 41

Watteau and the Theatricality of Class Identity 59

2. The Sentimental Peasant: Moral Economy and the Social Hierarchy in Mid Century 71

The Aesthetics and Politics of Rural Representation in the Mid Eighteenth Century 74

Patriarchal Society or Fraternal Community? Views of the Countryside in Favart, Sedaine, and Marmontel 81

Family Drama and the Social Imaginary in Greuze's Rural Canvases 97

3. The Country and the City: Rural Family Values and Urban Dissolution in Retif de la Bretonne and Fragonard 111

Demographic Change and Moral Nostalgia in Late Eighteenth-Century France 115

Libertine Spaces: Anonymous Crowds, Secret Chambers, and Urban Corruption in Retif de la Bretonne 118

Moral Policing and the Collective Gaze in Retif's Rural Communities 131

Morality and Sexuality in Fragonard's Canvases 140

4. Peasant and Revolution: Confronting Fiction and Reality at the End of the Century 151

Bringing the Condition of the Peasant to Light: Progress and Paradoxes 156

Young, Legrand d'Aussy, and the Challenge to Enlightenment Constructions of the Peasant, 1787-94 161

Social Consciousness, Rural Revolt, and Revolution 171

Coda: The Peasant Today 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.

ISBN:

0874138531

OCLC:

53441377