Everyday Life and Sentimental. Literature of Crisis in the Late Eighteenth Century

Authors

  • David Matteini University of Florence/Luigi Einaudi Foundation, Turin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i3.6548

Keywords:

everyday life, sentimental, crisis, Eighteenth century, novel

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate how the recourse to the sphere of everyday life has been a founding element of late-eighteenth-century European literature. Through the analysis of the cultural and socio-economic conjuncture of the period, the essay shows how the ‘culture of crisis’ participated in the affirmation of new narrative models in sharp contrast with the classicistic tradition of Ancient Regime. By means of a comparative and wide-ranging approach, texts that exemplify these new tendencies towards withdrawal from the world will be taken into consideration.

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Author Biography

David Matteini, University of Florence/Luigi Einaudi Foundation, Turin

David Matteini is PhD in Comparative Literature. He is currently a research fellow at the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi in Turin under the supervision of prof. Vincenzo Ferrone with a project concerning the anti-intellectual and anti-academic controversy in the cultural context of the late Enlightenment. His interests embrace the history of ideas and mentalities of European civilization between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with particular attention to the relationship between politics and literary history, cultural transferts and revolutionary anthropology of the late eighteenth century. He has participated in national and international conferences and collaborates with the Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate (Pacini) with articles and reviews. His doctoral thesis Enthusiasm and Revolution. The Adam Lux case, revised and expanded, is being printed for the types of Pacini and Classiques Garnier.

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Published

2019-12-27

How to Cite

Matteini, D. (2019). Everyday Life and Sentimental. Literature of Crisis in the Late Eighteenth Century. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (3), 45–69. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i3.6548

Issue

No. 3 (2019): The forms and the days. Representations of everyday life in literature, audiovisual, visual and performing arts

Section

Monographic section I

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