| Titre | « Faire parler le silence de la folie » : le projet de Charles Brockden Brown | |
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| Auteur | Marc Amfreville, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 71, janvier 1997 Sciences & savoir dans la littérature américaine au XIXe siècle. | |
| Page | 14 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
With the ambition of providing the United States with a national literature moving away from the "Gothic chimeras" of his English contemporaries, C.B. Brown (1771-1810) called upon science, and notably the emerging psychiatric lore, to ensure the verisimilitude of his novels. At a time when Pinel, Tuke and Rush were, according to M. Foucault, "silencing madness" by classifying mental illnesses, Brown let lunatic characters express anguish and fears dangerously akin to those of the typically enlightened and mentally healthy narrators who report them, thus casting a doubt on the very scientific premises he had appeared to rely upon and obliquely questioning the confident optimism of his age. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1997_num_71_1_1669 |
