Textual gardens : Rousseau's Elysée and Girardin's Ermenonville

Author

MacArthur, Elizabeth

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Romance quarterly. 1991, Num. 3, Vol. 38, 331-340

ISSN

0883-1157

Abstract (en)

Analyzes the description of the fictional Elysée, Julie's garden in Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse. Julie's and Wolmar's linguistic mediation of Saint-Preux' visit is designed to regulate the reveries which the garden inspired in him and insure that he read the garden as an expression of virtue. Girardin's inscriptions at Ermenonville, on the other hand, function partly to guide visitors' reactions, but primarily to arouse the very emotions that Saint-Preux felt and that his guides sought to suppress.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- Gardens -- France
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
• Girardin, René Louis, marquis de, 1735-1808
• Gardens
• France
• 1700-1800
• Parc Jean-Jacques-Rousseau||Ermenonville (FRA)
• Inscriptions
• La nouvelle Héloïse

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- Jardins -- France
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
• Girardin, René Louis, marquis de, 1735-1808
• Jardin
• France
• 1700-1800
• Parc Jean-Jacques-Rousseau||Ermenonville (FRA)
• Inscription
• La nouvelle Héloïse

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920701-00425668

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