Lewis, Ann (2007) Mme Riccoboni au XIXe siècle, une enquête péritextuelle. In: Herman, J. and Pelckmans, P. and Peeters, K. (eds.) Mme Riccoboni: romancière, épistolière, traductrice. La République des Lettres 34. Paris, France and Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, pp. 303-320. ISBN 9789042919822.
Abstract
This article complements previous research on the contemporary reception of Mme Riccoboni’s œuvre by analysing her reception in the nineteenth century. A range of attitudes regarding the literary value, the themes and the genre of her novels are examined focusing on a series of peritextual materials which have not previously been studied, notably, the prefaces and illustrations to nineteenth-century editions of her works. In their proximity to the published text, these peritexts both embody a kind of ‘reading’ (on the part of prefacier and illustrator), and influence the potential reader of each edition, thus providing us with a privileged source of evidence of the perception of Riccoboni’s novels in this period. In their engagement with the playful reflexivity of the novels, the illustrations provide a useful counterpoint to the prefatorial commentaries, which fail almost entirely to do justice to the novels’ thematic complexities and gender politics.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Mme Riccoboni, eighteenth-century novel, reception studies, book illustration |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Gender and Sexuality, Birkbeck (BiGS), Social Research, Birkbeck Institute for (BISR), Aesthetics of Kinship and Community, Birkbeck Research in (BRAKC) |
| Depositing User: | Ann Lewis |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2013 09:38 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:32 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/6010 |
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