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French epistolary novel [ Literary & Artistic genres / Reading & Writing ]

… social. Concepts > Literary & Artistic genres Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Letter Letter-writing Conversation Epistolary novel Richardson Montesquieu Rousseau Laclos Le roman épistolaire est l’une des formes littéraires les plus … Partager sur Twitter Partager par Email Imprimer l'article View PDF Cite this article D'ASCENZO Federica, "French epistolary novel", The Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century [online], ISSN 2803-2845, Accessed on 03/31/2023, URL: https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/french-epistolary-novel.html Further Reading Calas, Frédéric, Le Roman épistolaire (Paris : Armand Colin, 2005). Chevalier, …

Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]

… politically active alongside Philippe d’Orléans and participated in the debates of his time through his writing. His epistolary Les liaisons dangereuses , which was based on Richardson’s Clarissa , was his ‘unique book’. More radical than … sociability that had descended into libertinism. The work simultaneously marked the pinnacle and dissolution of the epistolary novel, the symbol of sociable exchange. People > Art and Literature People > Association Keywords Revolutionary sociability libertinism Epistolary novel Richardson Social reform Born on 18 October 1741 in Amiens to a recently ennobled family, …

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]

… fifth Duchess of Devonshire captivated late eighteenth-century society with her youth, charm and high rank. Her epistolary novel The Sylph explores the relationship between high society, sociability and suicide. People > Aristocracy People > Fashion Keywords Burney Duchess Devonshire Epistolary Evelina Fashion Fashionability Gambling Suicide Sylph Georgiana Cavendish, the fifth Duchess of Devonshire … feelings of dissatisfaction found full expression a year later. In 1779 Cavendish anonymously published The Sylph , an epistolary novel that owes a debt to Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778); Burney was initially thought to have been the …

Marie Du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]

… salon on rue Saint-Dominique.   Her correspondence with Horace Walpole gives us a window into how Franco-British epistolary relationships helped shape new spaces of sociability, both real and imagined. People > Art and Literature Keywords Friendship Correspondence Epistolary Letter Salon Horace Walpole Lespinasse Geoffrin Madame du Deffand, née Marie de Vichy-Champrond, was born in … The letters Madame du Deffand exchanged with Walpole 4 between 1766 and 1780 give us a window into how Franco-British epistolary relationships helped shape new spaces of sociability, both real and imagined. The two shared a mutual …

Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]

… evolution of eighteenth-century theatrical creation. People > Art and Literature Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Epistolary friendship Theatre National specificities France and Great-Britain Anglomania Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, née … French readers had for English literature, and the strong ties that united the two countries. The vibrant network of epistolary sociability which thrived during the Enlightenment would form the underpinnings of her enduring friendships … production of both countries. Riccoboni was not a woman of the salons—she was a woman of letters who found, in the epistolary dialogue, the perfect complement to the art of conversation. Though she was not fond of Richardson’s novels, …