The golden age of satire in France and England in the 17th and 18th centuries
Online study day organized by the University of Rouen Normandie on December 10, 2020,
as part of the preparation for Agrégations de Lettres and Anglais
Organizers: Laurence Macé, Marc Martinez, Tony Gheeraert
live on Youtube, with the possibility of exchanges with the speakers by chat.
at this address: https://melancolie.hypotheses.org/1505
Argument
The first modernity in Europe was a golden age of satire: the so-called “classical” era in France, marked by Boileau, and “neo-classical” in England, with Dryden then Pope, produced the great masterpieces. work of formal satire inspired by the ancient masters, Horace, Persia and Juvenal. But the triumph followed disgrace: virulence, attacks gooseberry, the presumed sterility of satires quickly regarded as mere libels, caused the decline of genre satirical, without however extinguishing the mode satirical, likely to contaminate all forms. If, in the 18th century in France, Voltaire established himself as the absolute master in this register, England was not to be outdone: across the Channel, the vitriolic painting of Yahoos, by Jonathan Swift, brilliantly prolongs the anti -humanist habitual in satire, and attests to true continuities beyond generic differences, historical periods, and geographic fragmentation.
It is this story of life, death and metamorphosis of satire that we propose to focus on, on the sidelines of the Agrégation 2021 de Lettres programs (Boileau, Satires ; Voltaire, Zadig, Candide, the Ingenuous) and English (Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s travels)
Bibliography : Sophie Duval, Marc Martinez, The satire, Armand Colin, coll. U, 2000.
Online notebook: boileau.hypotheses.org
Provisional program
09h00: Welcome
The pressure of antique models
Chair: Xavier Bonnier, University of Rouen Normandie
9:15 am: Mélanie Lucciano (University of Rouen Normandie), “Socrates and the Latin satirists”
9:55 am: Isabelle Gassino (University of Rouen Normandy), “Satire in Antiquity: the example of Lucien de Samosate”
10h35 : Pause
The Golden Age of Satire (1)
Chair: Laurence Plazenet, Clermont Auvergne University
10:50 am: Clémentine Bénard (ERIAC), “Satire at John Donne”
11:30 am: Pascal Debailly (Paris Diderot University – Paris VII), “Boileau and the noble satire”
12:15 p.m .: Lunch
The Golden Age of Satire (2)
Chair: Pascal Debailly, Paris Diderot – Paris VII University
1:45 p.m .: Tony Gheeraert (University of Rouen Normandie), “Boileau, the king’s last madman”
2:25 p.m .: Laurence Plazenet (Clermont Auvergne University), “Mockery and bite: Racine satirique”
15h05 : Pause
From the exhaustion of a genre to the triumph of a register
Chair: Anne Besnault, University of Rouen Normandie
3:20 p.m .: Marc Martinez (University of Rouen Normandie), “Poetics of satire: Gulliver’s Travels and Anglo-Saxon theories ”
4:00 p.m .: Laurence Macé (University of Rouen Normandie), “La satire chez Voltaire”
16h40 : Pause
5:00 pm: Melissa Richard (University of Rouen Normandie), “La satire chez Swift”
5.30 p.m .: Conclusions and end of the day
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