The Fantastic in the French Historical Novel of the First Half of the 19th Century
The article examines the processes of genre identification of the fantastic in the French historical novel of the mid‑19th century, the role and transformation of natural science and pre-scientific knowledge — the phenomenon of mesmerism in the depiction of the mysterious features of the psycholog...
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| Language: | Russian |
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Телекинет
2024-06-01
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| Summary: | The article examines the processes of genre identification of the fantastic in the French historical novel of the mid‑19th century, the
role and transformation of natural science and pre-scientific knowledge — the phenomenon of mesmerism in the depiction of the
mysterious features of the psychology and psyche of romantic heroes, in the comprehension of the laws of historical development. The
author examines and substantiates the connections of fantastic fiction with the traditions of Gothic literature, romanticism and myth,
and explores the specifics of the historicization of the image of the mystical seer in George Sand’s duology (Consuelo, 1842–1843
and Countess of Rudolstadt, 1843–1844), and the demythologization of a phenomenon — the image of an adventurer-visionary in
the first part of Alexandre Dumas’s tetralogy on the French Revolution (Joseph Balsamo, or Memoires of a Physician, 1846–1848).
It is proved that the fantastic in George Sand’s books organically and convincingly fits into the paradigm of the socio-historical novel
(with elements of a socialist utopia) about the formation of an artist, and in Alexandre Dumas’s works it determines the features of
the historical adventure novel. The fantastic contributes to the formation of the poetics of popular, mass literature in France in the
19th century |
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| ISSN: | 2618-9313 |