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La maison et le jardin ou comment habiter les jardins dans quelques romans du XIXe siècle ? by Pascale AURAIX-JONCHIERE – Château de Bénouville
The house and garden, or how to live in gardens from a few 19th century novels
The space comprised within a house and a garden (be they in town or country) form an inseperable whole in 19th century Romanesque topography. These two complementary areas are organised in a manner to mobilise the gaze and the movement of those who occupy them. Indeed, according to the day’s circumstances, one can go out to the garden, alone or to reunite with others, or simply observe it from inside the house. The aim of this conference is to grasp precisely what goes on amidst these arrangements and their variations, based on a few examples taken from works by Balzac, Flaubert, George Sand and Zola.
Pascale Auraix-Jonchière
Pascale Auraix-Jonchière is a professor in French 19th century litterature at the University of Clermont Auvergne. Specialised in Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly and George Sand, she directs/edits series devoted to these authors for Editions Garnier. Her research also focuses her research on collecting myths and tales, on sociopoetry (spaces and societies), and on the poetry of forms (short fictional works, ‘Romanesque’ works). She is Editor in Chief of the on-line magazine Sociopoétiques and co-edited the literary dictionary of flowers and gardens (18th-19th century) in collaboration with Simone Bernard-Griffiths, published by Champion (2017).