Terpsichore and the Modern Novel: Ballroom Scenes in French Narratives of the 19th Century
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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.27.3.41-55Keywords:
ballroom scene, French novel, nineteenth century, modernityAbstract
This work presents a study of the French modern novel from one of its topoi: the ballroom scene, which from the 19th century on increasingly appears in a systematic way, mimicking the outbreak of the ball as a bourgeois social phenomenon, being the bourgeoisie a social class that appropriates an idealized imagery of the old ruling class, the nobility. This literary change follows the evolution of manners going on within society starting from the French Revolution – which initiated the formation of a new mentality that put in evidence the notions of the individual and of isolation. Through the reading of three ball scenes, some aspects of the tensions and conflicts that mark the individual and their relationship with the modern world are presented. As theoretical framework, studies on the novel by Watt and on the representation of reality by Auerbach are brought to the foreground.
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