History and the literary : a method of interdisciplinary enquiry into seventeenth- to twentieth-century France / edited by Christian Jouhaud and Kate Tunstall ; texts translated by Adrian Morfee, Vicki-Marie Petrick, Cécile Soudan, and Kate Tunstall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Viala, Alain, author.

Cantillon, Alain, author.

Giavarini, Laurence, author.

Ribard, Dinah, author.

Schapira, Nicolas, author.

Bombart, Mathilde, author.

Cavaillé, Jean-Pierre, author.

Houdard, Sophie, author.

Lyon-Caen, Judith, author.

Contributor:

Tunstall, Kate E., editor, translator, author.

Jouhaud, Christian, editor, author.

Morfee, Adrian, translator.

Petrick, Vicki-Marie, translator.

Soudan, Cécile, translator.

Voltaire Foundation, sponsoring body.

Series:

Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2025:01.

Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2634-8047 ; 2025:01

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Interdisciplinary research.

Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.

French literature--Research.

French literature.

France--Study and teaching.

France.

Physical Description:

x, 233 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm

illustrations.

facsimiles.

Other Title:

Method of interdisciplinary enquiry into seventeenth- to twentieth-century France

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

Texts in English.

Summary:

"This book makes available in English for the first time the work of the pioneering French interdisciplinary research group, Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur l'Histoire du Littéraire, better known as the GRIHL. Founded in 1997 by the historian, Christian Jouhaud, and the sociologist of literature, Alain Viala, the GRIHL's weekly seminar has been the crucible for the careers of a whole generation of scholars, working on social and political phenomenon of what it terms 'the literary' from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, primarily but not exclusively in France, and pioneering an interdisciplinary perspective. The brainchild of Alain Viala, who died in 2021 and to whom it pays tribute, the book combines methodological position pieces and case studies, work done both individually and collectively as a seminar. The Introduction (Kate Tunstall and Christian Jouhaud) situates the GRIHL in the intellectual and institutional landscape and explains what is meant by 'the literary' (as distinct from 'literature'). Three powerful pieces on method - 'Opening Moves' - set out why the GRIHL approaches 'writings' rather than 'texts' and what happens when writing is viewed, as it is by the GRIHL, as a social act (Alain Cantillon, Laurence Giavarini, Dinah Ribard, Nicolas Schapira); what happens when place is viewed not as site but as situation (Mathilde Bombart and Alain Cantillon), and a publication not as an object but as an action (Christian Jouhaud and Alain Viala). The GRIHL's deep interdisciplinarity is evident in the two sets of case studies - 'Three Things to Think With', which includes urban riots (Nicolas Schapira), the literary canon (Laurence Gavarini), libertines and heretics (Sophie Houdard and Jean-Pierre Cavaillé) - and 'Seeing the Past', which deals with Romantic ruins (Judith Lyon-Caen), historical amnesia in Simenon (Christian Jouhaud), and the many figures of Watteau (Alain Viala). Together, these essays make clear what is truly distinctive about the GRIHL's approach. In critical conversation with J. L. Austin, Foucault, de Certeau, and others, including themselves, and with disciplines such as the history of the book and cultural studies, the GRIHL brings into view the many acts of writing that created, sustain - and block - our knowledge of the past." -- Publisher's website.

Contents:

General introduction / Christian Jouhaud and Kate Tunstall

Racine, literary strategy and interest / Alain Viala

Pt. 1. Opening moves.

Writing and action : an introduction / Alain Cantillon, Laurence Giavarini, Dinah Ribard and Nicolas Schapira

Places : locating writings and writing actions : introduction / Mathilde Bombart and Alain Cantillon

History of the book, history through the book, history of literature / Dinah Ribard and Nicolas Schapira

Towards a history of publication / Christian Jouhaud and Alain Viala

Pt. 2. Three things to think with.

Les Caractères : the knowledge of literature / Laurence Giavarini

Lanturlu : writings of a revolt in Ancien Régime France / Nicolas Schapira

Irreligion and gender relations in the early modern era : case studies / Jean-Pierre Cavaillé and Sophie Houdard

Pt. 3. Seeing the past.

Seeing the past in Romantic ruins : a political and literary history / Judith Lyon-Caen

Seeing and not seeing with Commissaire Maigret / Christian Jouhaud

Who's there? Seeing Watteau with Pierre Michon / Alain Viala.

Notes:

"Published by Liverpool University Press on behalf of © 2025 Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford"--Title page verso.

Essays are translations and adaptations of previously published works.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.

ISBN:

9781835536797

1835536794

OCLC:

1485587649