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dc.contributor.authorHaugen, Marius Warholm
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-06T11:45:53Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-10T09:06:41Z
dc.date.available2016-10-06T11:45:53Z
dc.date.available2016-10-10T09:06:41Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationNineteenth-Century French studies 2016, 45(1-2):1-16nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn1536-0172
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2413819
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the topics of confinement and claustrophilia in Xavier de Maistre’s Voyage autour de ma chambre (1795) and Expédition nocturne autour de ma chambre (1825), and in Jan Potocki’s Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse (1791–1814). These works resonate with ideas put forward by Blaise Pascal in the Pensées, more precisely with the reflections on man’s need for constant diversion, represented though the image of his incapacity to stay alone in a room. The fictions of de Maistre and Potocki have in common that they stage literary prison scenes where the characters experience confinement as stimulating for their creativity, giving way to a specific freedom of the imagination. The article argues further that, if the claustrophilia advocated by de Maistre and Potocki appears as responses to the problem of man’s restlessness as examined by Pascal, these responses depend on a Rousseauist understanding of the notion of exalted imagination.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherUniversity of Nebraska Pressnb_NO
dc.titleClaustrophilia and Exalted Imagination: Fictional Responses to a Pascalian Problem in the Works of Xavier de Maistre and Jan Potockinb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.date.updated2016-10-06T11:45:53Z
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Humaniora: 000::Litteraturvitenskapelige fag: 040::Fransk litteratur: 046nb_NO
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Humanities: 000::Literature: 040::French literature: 046nb_NO
dc.source.volume45nb_NO
dc.source.journalNineteenth-Century French studiesnb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1353/ncf.2016.0013
dc.identifier.cristin1385963
dc.subject.keyword1800-tallet / Nineteenth century
dc.subject.keywordBlaise Pascal / Blaise Pascal
dc.subject.keywordJan Potocki / Jan Potocki
dc.subject.keywordXavier de Maistre / Xavier de Maistre
dc.description.localcodeCopyright © 2016 University of Nebraska Press. This is the authors' accepted and refereed manuscript to the article.nb_NO


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