| Titre | Le mariage dans les romances historiques du premier XIXe siècle : Dénouement heureux, bonheur matrimonial et harmonie nationale | |
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| Auteur | Pauline Pilote | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 157, 4ème trimestre 2018 La recherche du bonheur | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | 1. Au bonheur des âmes ? |
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| Page | 19-33 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Closing a novel on a wedding is the formulaic ending of most popular 19th century fictions. Yet, when it comes to Cooper's and Sedgwick's historical romances the final union is loaded with a symbolical meaning. As the story opens onto the future, the concluding epithalamium pictures a white, patriotic, common-man America, as heralded in the Jacksonian era. However, the unifying discourse of national concord superimposed on the heroes' happy end covers up diverging paths: the eulogy of both spinsters and bachelors and the possibility of miscegenation eventually tends to blur the harmony showcased in the epilogue. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=RFEA_157_0019 |
