‘Et in Arcadia ego’ : modulations mélancoliques de la tradition pastorale entre Lumières et Romantismes

The aim of this paper is to study the modulations of the links established between pastoral and melancholy in a series of late eighteenth-century literary texts. Starting from the three definitions of « mélancolie » given in the Encyclopédie, the paper first examines eighteenth centuries interpretat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jean-Louis Haquette
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2003-04-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/8181