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La période 1760-1850 voit l'émergence, puis le déclin d'un sous-genre nouveau : le récit de voyage excentrique. Ces « anti-récits de voyage » qui se déroulent dans une chambre, dans mes poches, en zigzag ... jouent tant avec les codes narratologiques du voyage classique qu'avec sa mise en livre, déployant notamment des extravagances paratextuelles et typographiques qui problématisent la place de l'ouvrage dans un circuit de communication de plus en plus dominé par le paradigme industriel. Si Laurence Sterne, qui lance cette mode avec Tristram Shandy et Le Voyage sentimental, revendique sa célébrité littéraire, pour ses imitateurs Xavier de Maistre et Rodolphe Töpffer il s'agit de maintenir leur automarginalisation dans un champ auctorial de plus en plus sous le signe de la « littérature industrielle » (Sainte-Beuve). Ancrée dans une double tradition de la narratologie française (Lejeune, Genette) et de l'histoire du livre anglo-saxon (Robert Darnton), cette étude retrace le trajet de cet épiphénomène éditorial de ses origines à sa disparition avec le triomphe du paradigme industriel dans la production livresque, mettant ainsi en lumière la métamorphose non seulement d'un genre littéraire, mais du champ auctorial et éditorial dans lequel il s'inscrit.

Eccentrics and eccentricities. --- Literature (General) --- Narration.

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The aim of the book is twofold: first, to provide an overview of the critical history of eccentricity; and secondly to conceptualise a notion that is often presented as a defining feature of the English "character". It addresses the key issues raised by eccentricity and brings out interdisciplinary links between science, politics, literature and the arts: the sources and dissemination of the concept of eccentricity; its relationship with the English national character as historical and ideolo...

Eccentrics and eccentricities --- Eccentrics in literature. --- English literature --- Eccentrics and eccentricities in literature --- Cranks (Persons) --- Eccentricities --- Fixed ideas --- Characters and characteristics --- Curiosities and wonders --- Personality --- History and criticism.

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Eccentrics and eccentricities --- Cranks (Persons) --- Eccentricities --- Fixed ideas --- Characters and characteristics --- Curiosities and wonders --- Personality

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American literature --- Eccentric literature --- Literature and society --- Eccentrics in literature. --- Crank books --- Literature, Eccentric --- Literary curiosa --- Eccentrics and eccentricities in literature --- History and criticism. --- History

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'Timon of Athens' is a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his friends, and, when he is finally impoverished, learns to despise humanity with a hatred that drives him to his grave.

Shakespeare, William --- Timon of Athens (Legendary character) --- Drama --- Timon of Athens (Legendary character) in literature --- Loss (Psychology) --- Rich people --- Recluses --- Poor --- Athens (Greece) --- Eccentrics and eccentricities --- Hermits --- Psychology --- Shakespeare, William, --- Timon, --- Τίμων, --- In literature. --- Timon of Athens (Legendary character) in literature. --- Shadwell, Thomas,