Description

Le si cle des Lumi res constitue un moment important dans l' mergence de la litt rature pour la jeunesse en France. La production destin e aux jeunes lecteurs rassemble alors non seulement des ouvrages initialement r dig's pour ce public, mais aussi des r critures qui lui sont adress es. ditions adapt es, abr g's, imitations plus libres: ces r critures s'attachent des oeuvres fort diverses, des classiques de l'Antiquit aux fictions modernes, en passant par les discours historique et scientifique. Elles forment un genre litt raire qui se consolide au XVIIIe et au d but du XIXesi cle, en int grant plusieurs questions qui sont au coeur de la pens e des Lumi res, notamment en mati re d' ducation. Le pr sent ouvrage se propose d'explorer cette production peu tudi e jusqu' ce jour. Les contributions abordent les multiples facettes du genre, en s'int ressant aux r critures des oeuvres de diff rents auteurs: Cic ron, Plutarque, La Bruy re, Rousseau, Perrault, Villeneuve, Defoe, Cervant's, Fielding, Newton, Raynal, Buffon. En se penchant sur les enjeux li's l'apparition de la litt rature pour le jeune public, elles jettent un regard original sur la culture crite des Lumi res.

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The Age of Enlightenment was an important moment in the emergence of children's literature in France. Literary output for young readers included not only original works, but also rewrites of existing texts to suit this particularly type of audience. Adapted editions, abridgements, texts based loosely on those from which they draw original inspiration: these rewritings are present across a diverse range of works, from the classics of antiquity to modern fiction, through historical and scientific discourse. They form a literary genre that was consolidated in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries and address various questions at the heart of Enlightenment thought, particularly in terms of education. The present collection takes an orignal look at the writing culture of the Enlightenment by exploring this neglected set of texts for younger audiences. Contributions address the many facets of the genre, focusing on the rewritings of works by different authors, including Cic ron, Plutarque, La Bruy re, Rousseau, Perrault, Villeneuve, Defoe, Cervant's, Fielding, Newton, Raynal, Buffon.