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- Title
La Vogue des archéofictions au XIX<sup>e</sup> siècle: le passé ressuscité et le passé interprété.
- Authors
Kapor, Vladimir
- Abstract
Through the concept of archeofictions, this article rethinks the interface between fiction and archaeology in nineteenth-century France. By rejecting conventional categories such as 'archaeological novel', the corpus of fictional works under scrutiny is expanded, to encompass lesser-studied authors such as Bibliophile Jacob (Paul Leroux) and Gustave Toudouze, in addition to Gustave Flaubert and Théophile Gautier. Throughout the nineteenth century, archaeology was a discipline-in-the-making, dominated by textual methods, and lacking institutional recognition. The analysis aims to show the ways in which nineteenth-century imaginative literature encapsulated early archaeology's quest for epistemic autonomy and methodological struggles, while embracing the new patterns of thought for framing the past promoted by the nascent discipline.
- Subjects
FRANCE; ARCHAEOLOGY in literature; 19TH century fiction; ARCHAEOLOGY &; literature; ARCHAEOLOGY; FLAUBERT, Gustave, 1821-1880; GAUTIER, Theophile, 1811-1872; NINETEENTH century; INTELLECTUAL life
- Publication
Nottingham French Studies, 2012, Vol 51, Issue 1, p54
- ISSN
0029-4586
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/nfs.2012.0006