Rousseau in the Literary-Economic Knot
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https://doi.org/10.18485/kis.2020.52.170.6Keywords:
Rousseau, homme de lettres, French absolutism, salons, mondaine sociability, economy of protection, autonomy of the writer, fictionAbstract
This paper discusses Rousseau’s approach to the relationship between literature and economy. Since there were no literature or economy in the contemporary sense in the pre-revolutionary France of the 18th century, the links between the literary and the economic were less concealed. These fields were not strictly distinguished, but made up a tight knot. Drawing upon the dialectical approach, I read Rousseau’s questioning of the literary-economic node on several levels: i.) the economic conditions of the literary practices in the context of French absolutism; ii.) the economic contents in literary works; iii.) the overlapping of the literary with economic forms, and iv.) the economy of literature that incites courage and calls for a change of the socio-economic reality.
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Rousseau in the Literary-Economic Knot. (2020). Literary History — Journal of Literary Studies, 52(170), 109–130. https://doi.org/10.18485/kis.2020.52.170.6
