L’‘Histoire de ma littérature’ de Mme d’Arconville (1720-1805): Ecriture de soi et généalogie d’une personnalité intellectuelle

Bernier, M. A. (2022). L’‘Histoire de ma littérature’ de Mme d’Arconville (1720-1805): Ecriture de soi et généalogie d’une personnalité intellectuelle. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 45 (2). pp. 157-167. ISSN 1754-0194 DOI 10.1111/1754-0208.12792

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Abstract:
Mme d’Arconville stands out amongst eighteenth-century women of letters be-cause she combined the practice of literature with the more unexpected study of science.When at the end of a very long life she returns to what she calls the‘story of her head’, theanecdotes she recounts constitute a genealogy of her thought stemming from her child-hood’s encyclopaedic curiosity. This essay examines this intellectual narrative throughtwo unpublished autobiographical manuscripts written around1803: the‘Histoire dema littérature’and‘Mes souvenirs’. These are less concerned with rooting identity inan intimate sense of self than with investigating the genealogy of what would later becalled anintellectual personality. Her autobiographical writing thus invites us to rediscovera world both within and outside the self and makes it not only possible to retrace the in-tellectual history of a woman, but also to apprehend experiences from the period’svastnetworks of sociability.

Type de document:	Article
Mots-clés libres:	French Enlightenment Life writing Autobiography Women’s intellectual history History of sociability Mme d’Arconville
Date de dépôt:	27 févr. 2023 19:24
Dernière modification:	18 mai 2024 04:00
Version du document déposé:	Post-print (version corrigée et acceptée)
URI:	https://depot-e.uqtr.ca/id/eprint/10490

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