Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer
Coleman, PatrickAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2011.
On the one hand, anger and gratitude are crucial in appreciating what one owes to oneself or others; on the other, they disturb one's internal balance and reinforce one's dependence upon others. This book explores the tension between these two attitudes in the work of French Enlightenment writers such as Rousseau, Diderot, and Marivaux.
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On the one hand, anger and gratitude are crucial in appreciating what one owes to oneself or others; on the other, they disturb one's internal balance and reinforce one's dependence upon others. This book explores the tension between these two attitudes in the work of French Enlightenment writers such as Rousseau, Diderot, and Marivaux.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Dec. 16, 2010).
Anger, gratitude, and enlightenment sociability. Anger and cultural status ; Gratitude as burden and gift ; Emotions as relations and judgments -- Anger and reconciliation in Robert Challe. Difficultés sur la religion ; Les Ilustres Françaises -- Reconnaissance in La vie de Marianne. Marianne and gratitude as success story ; Tervire's failed dramaturgy of recognition ; Gratitude and authorship -- Anger and authorship in Rousseau. Anger good and bad ; Anger and the writing self ; From Vincennes to the two Discours ; Lettre à d'Alembert : comic, tragic, and melancholy anger ; Julie and the containment of anger ; Émile and the "Profession de foi" -- Rousseau's quarrel with gratitude. Discours sur l'inégalité ; Du contrat social ; Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse ; Émile, the tutor, and the Vicaire savoyard ; Unfinished business -- Resentment and reflection in Le neveu de Rameau. Anger and satiric dignity ; The pacte tacite ; The rights of genius ; Admiration, obligation, and envy ; Beyond anger and gratitude : the sublime.
French literature
Anger in literature
Gratitude in literature
Romance Literatures
Languages & Literatures
French Literature