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"The shade of Diderot in Le Château des Désertes by George Sand." October 26, 2012 (3:00 pm - 5:00 pm) Department of Languages and Literatures Acadia University Seminar Series Fall 2012 presents "The shade of Diderot in Le Château des Désertes by George Sand." by Dr. Romira Worvill Acadia University Abstract: In her own time, George Sand was known not only as a controversial novelist but also as a successful playwright. Following the success of her stage adaptation of her novel François le Champi (1849), contemporary critics began to note similarities between her dramatic style and that of Jean-Michel Sedaine a well-known author of eighteenth-century drames. These are plays which embody the theatre aesthetic launched in the mid eighteenth century through the theoretical writings and model plays of Sedaine’s famous friend, Denis Diderot. In Sand’s correspondence too, particularly that with her friend and theatrical collaborator, Pierre Bocage, modern critics have observed that Sand frequently formulates her ideas about play-writing and stage technique in terms which suggest the theory of Diderot. However, nowhere in her vast correspondence or in her various autobiographical texts does she ever mention that she has read Diderot’s dramatic work or taken it into account. The present paper proposes a solution to this paradox. It will show that Sand’s novella entitled Le Château des Désertes (completed in 1847, shortly after a period of theatrical experimentation) can be read as an intertext for and reference to Diderot’s major reflexion on the theatre and dramatic illusion, Le Fils naturel et les Entretiens sur le ‘Fils naturel’ (1757). It will present the argument for recognising Le Château des Désertes as Sand’s acknowledgment of her debt to Diderot and it will also address the question of why she never spoke more explicitly about Diderot’s dramatic theories in any of her other writings.
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"The shade of Diderot in Le Château des Désertes by GeorgeSand."
October 26, 2012 (3:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
Department of Languages and Literatures
Acadia University
Seminar Series Fall 2012
presents
"The shade of Diderot in Le Château des Désertes by George Sand."
by
Dr. Romira Worvill
Acadia University
Abstract:
In her own time, George Sand was known not only as a controversial novelist but also as a successfulplaywright. Following the success of her stage adaptation of her novel François le Champi (1849),contemporary critics began to note similarities between her dramatic style and that of Jean-Michel Sedainea well-known author of eighteenth-century drames. These are plays which embody the theatre aestheticlaunched in the mid eighteenth century through the theoretical writings and model plays of Sedaine’sfamous friend, Denis Diderot. In Sand’s correspondence too, particularly that with her friend and theatricalcollaborator, Pierre Bocage, modern critics have observed that Sand frequently formulates her ideas aboutplay-writing and stage technique in terms which suggest the theory of Diderot. However, nowhere in hervast correspondence or in her various autobiographical texts does she ever mention that she has readDiderot’s dramatic work or taken it into account. The present paper proposes a solution to this paradox. Itwill show that Sand’s novella entitled Le Château des Désertes (completed in 1847, shortly after a period oftheatrical experimentation) can be read as an intertext for and reference to Diderot’s major reflexion onthe theatre and dramatic illusion, Le Fils naturel et les Entretiens sur le ‘Fils naturel’ (1757). It will presentthe argument for recognising Le Château des Désertes as Sand’s acknowledgment of her debt to Diderotand it will also address the question of why she never spoke more explicitly about Diderot’s dramatictheories in any of her other writings.
October 26th, 3.00 pm, BAC 236
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