Presentation

This project seeks to build up a full picture of all aspects of the French-language novel in the early 19th-century, drawing up a comprehensive catalogue and initiating research into formal and thematic trends, authorial identities and publishing practices, materiality, readership (including provenance of located copies), critical reception, and the geographical, social and political trajectories of the novel-as-object.

Concrete objectives:

  1. To construct a comprehensive set of data-points covering the Actors, Processes and Forms involved in the production, dissemination and consumption of the French-language novel in the period 1801-1830, and to make the catalogue available to scholars worldwide via an online database.
  2. To initiate research into the data yielded by the project and to disseminate it via conferences and publications.

Promoters

  • Catriona Seth, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford
  • Valérie André, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, ULB

Thanks to the Foundation’s support, postdoctoral researchers Chanel de Halleux and Fanny Lacote have been hired to work on this project.