What is it about?
The twists and turns of the poet Jacques Delille's fame lend themselves to a case study in understanding the dynamics of cultural consecration, while questioning the differences between the narratives produced by literary history and the fact that an author's influence can persist long after he or she has been removed from the official canon.
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Why is it important?
Forming an introduction to a dossier on Delille's celebrities, the article proposes to treat the posterity of his work as the equivalent of the dark matter of astrophysicists, that is to say, a datum that is difficult to pinpoint but likely to shed light on several issues in nineteenth-century literature, in particular the strategies of French romanticism.
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The dossier stems from an ongoing, collective research project dedicated to Delille's works and impact.
Hugues Marchal
Universitat Basel
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This page is a summary of: Introduction, Nineteenth Century French Studies, January 2020, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/ncf.2020.0014.
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