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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Main Author: Litvinenko, N. A.
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Language:Russian
Published: Телекинет 2024-06-01
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description 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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The Fantastic in the French Historical Novel of the First Half of the 19th Century
Телекинет
fantastic fiction
mesmerism
historical novel
georges sand
alexandre dumas
title The Fantastic in the French Historical Novel of the First Half of the 19th Century
title_full The Fantastic in the French Historical Novel of the First Half of the 19th Century
title_fullStr The Fantastic in the French Historical Novel of the First Half of the 19th Century
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title_short The Fantastic in the French Historical Novel of the First Half of the 19th Century
title_sort fantastic in the french historical novel of the first half of the 19th century
topic fantastic fiction
mesmerism
historical novel
georges sand
alexandre dumas
url https://telecinet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/telekinet.2024.12-2627-p.39-43.pdf
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