The Dream of an Absolute Language: Emanuel Swedenborg and French Literary CultureTaking as its point of departure the two poems, "Correspondances" by Baudelaire and "Les correspondances" by Alphonse-Louis Constant, The Dream of an Absolute Language: Emanuel Swedenborg and French Literary Culture traces the reception and popularization of several key Swedenborgian doctrines in late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French literature and popular culture, notably the doctrine of correspondences. Contrary to what Michel Foucault argued in his early Les mots et les choses, in nineteenth-century France, the word "correspondences" does not denote a break with "representation," at least as it was used by nineteenth-century French writers: rather it is intimately bound up with the taxonomic structures of natural history—and also with the desire to understand the social world in terms of an ordered and controllable totality. Because it crops up in texts we now classify as canonical and also those outside the canon, and because it is so clearly related to notions of literary structure and effect, the word "correspondences" and its transformations in late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France offers a vantage point for discerning how artists and writers defined their work both within and against a context of cultures defined as elite, "popular," and even ideological. |
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Emanuel Swedenborg and French Literary Culture Lynn R. Wilkinson. The Dream of an Absolute Language This One P88A - 0XH - 5QNZ The Dream of an Absolute Language Emanuel Swedenborg and French.
Emanuel Swedenborg and French Literary Culture Lynn R. Wilkinson. The Dream of an Absolute Language This One P88A - 0XH - 5QNZ The Dream of an Absolute Language Emanuel Swedenborg and French.
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... French literary culture / Lynn R. Wilkinson . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-7914-2926-1 ( PB : acid free ) . ISBN 0-7914-2925-3 ( CH : acid free ) 1. Swedenborg , Emanuel , 1688-1772 - Contributions in ...
... French literary culture / Lynn R. Wilkinson . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-7914-2926-1 ( PB : acid free ) . ISBN 0-7914-2925-3 ( CH : acid free ) 1. Swedenborg , Emanuel , 1688-1772 - Contributions in ...
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Emanuel Swedenborg and French Literary Culture Lynn R. Wilkinson. Contents Preface⚫ ix Introduction : Swedenborg , French Culture , and the Dream of an Absolute Language 1 Part I : Swedenborgianism , Popular Culture , and the Ends of ...
Emanuel Swedenborg and French Literary Culture Lynn R. Wilkinson. Contents Preface⚫ ix Introduction : Swedenborg , French Culture , and the Dream of an Absolute Language 1 Part I : Swedenborgianism , Popular Culture , and the Ends of ...
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Emanuel Swedenborg and French Literary Culture Lynn R. Wilkinson. Language , Rituals , and Utopias : Eighteenth ... French Canon Chapter Four : The Underside of History : Swedenborgianism and La comédie humaine 147 Swedenborgianism ...
Emanuel Swedenborg and French Literary Culture Lynn R. Wilkinson. Language , Rituals , and Utopias : Eighteenth ... French Canon Chapter Four : The Underside of History : Swedenborgianism and La comédie humaine 147 Swedenborgianism ...
Contents
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Echoes of Les correspondances in ConstantLevis prose | 27 |
The Preface to the 1861 Edition | 37 |
Swedenborgs Correspondences and the Cultures of | 55 |
Who Has the Word? Swedenborgianism and Popular | 107 |
The Underside of History Swedenborgianism | 147 |
The Other Worlds of Les études philosophiques | 156 |
Swedenborgianism in Les études de moeurs | 194 |
Baudelaires Correspondances Language Censorship | 217 |
Conclusion | 249 |
Baudelaires Correspondances and ConstantLévis Les | 257 |
Works Cited | 301 |
Index | 321 |
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