L'enfant dans le roman français du XIXe siècle (1850-1914)
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Abstract EN:
L'enfant impose sa presence dans l'univers romanesque francais aux alentours de 1850. Ostentatoire ou discret ce nouveau personnage devient un acteur indissociable de la trame narrative. Progressivement, le classement part "types" (l'orphelin, le martyr, l'enfant abandonne, l'ecolier, le gamin. . . ) dont il fait dans un premier temps l'objet laisse place aux representations de "cas" alimentees a la source de problematiques propres a chaque ecrivain. Les diverses esthetiques se conjugent pour elaborer une semiotique qui renseigne sur la consideration sociale dont l'enfant beneficie au cours de la seconde partie du dix-neuvieme siecle; en meme temps elles commencent a influer, a travers l'interet qu'elles lui accordent, sur son sort dans la realite.
Abstract FR:
The child imposes his presence in french literature around 1850. Ostentious or reserved, this new character becomes an indissociable actor of the storyline. Progressively the classification by types (the orphan, the battered child, the abandoned child, the schoolboy, the kid. . . ) gives place to descriptions of "individual cases" which draw their inspiration from the writer's own experience. The various aesthetics combine to develop a semiotics giving information about the social consideration of the child during the second part of the nineteenth century ; at the same time, they begin to influence, through the significance they grant to this character, on his condition in life.