LE ROMANTISME EN FRANCE AU XVIII SIECLE

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This study shows that Romanticism, as represented in the 18th century by a deep-seated love of Nature, existed long before the Nouvelle Héloïse, or the theories of George Sand and Victor Hugo. Divided into three sections, this work contains first a survey of the romantic disquiet: the wandering souls, Rousseau and Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, the great spiritual upheavals, Young, Loaisel de Tréogate and Baculard d’Arnaud. The second section deals with romantic lyricism during the Age of Enlightenment: the delights of sentiment, the fateful gift from Heaven, the melancholy and the secret confessions. The work also includes a presentation of romantic poetics: the passage from philosophical to sentimental criticism; the résistance of dogmatism; the poets’ failure.

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