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La période 1760-1850 voit l'émergence, puis le déclin d'un sous-genre nouveau : le récit de voyage excentrique. Ces « anti-récits de voyage » qui se déroulent dans une chambre, dans mes poches, en zigzag ... jouent tant avec les codes narratologiques du voyage classique qu'avec sa mise en livre, déployant notamment des extravagances paratextuelles et typographiques qui problématisent la place de l'ouvrage dans un circuit de communication de plus en plus dominé par le paradigme industriel. Si Laurence Sterne, qui lance cette mode avec Tristram Shandy et Le Voyage sentimental, revendique sa célébrité littéraire, pour ses imitateurs Xavier de Maistre et Rodolphe Töpffer il s'agit de maintenir leur automarginalisation dans un champ auctorial de plus en plus sous le signe de la « littérature industrielle » (Sainte-Beuve). Ancrée dans une double tradition de la narratologie française (Lejeune, Genette) et de l'histoire du livre anglo-saxon (Robert Darnton), cette étude retrace le trajet de cet épiphénomène éditorial de ses origines à sa disparition avec le triomphe du paradigme industriel dans la production livresque, mettant ainsi en lumière la métamorphose non seulement d'un genre littéraire, mais du champ auctorial et éditorial dans lequel il s'inscrit.

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Printmaker James Caulfield (1764-1826) spent much of his career publishing illustrated books about 'remarkable persons'. He began his first series around 1788 and continued it sporadically from 1790 to 1795, with books on a similar theme continuing to appear in the first decades of the nineteenth century. More than forty years after his death, this collection of biographies (produced in collaboration with Henry Wilson (fl. 1820-30)) was republished in 1869. The edition's introduction explains that the renewed interest in these characters comes from the fact that 'we have nearly lost all, and are daily losing what little remains of, our individuality'. The vignettes, accompanied by engravings of each individual, describe a wide-ranging group - from the man who died aged 152 to a 'remarkable glutton' to a woman who lived on the smell of flowers - their only common factor being that they were in some way 'wonderful'.

Eccentrics and eccentricities --- Characters and characteristics. --- Curiosities and wonders. --- Enigmas --- Facts, Miscellaneous --- Miscellaneous facts --- Oddities --- Trivia --- Wonders --- Characteristics, Personal --- Personal characteristics --- Persons --- Typology (Psychology)

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Charles Lewis Meryon (1783-1877) was the personal physician to the unconventional and adventurous Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), who left England in 1810 to travel to the Middle East. She eventually settled in Lebanon and by the time she died no longer had contact with any Europeans. Meryon's Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope (also reissued in this series) recounted her journey during the first seven years he spent with her before returning to England to complete his medical training. Over the next twenty years, they remained in contact and he stayed with her on two more occasions before she died. In this three-volume work, first published in 1845, Meryon presents letters he received from her and recounts their conversations, giving a remarkable insight into the woman he describes as 'out of humour with all mankind'. Volume 2 looks back at Lady Hester's noble origins and her reasons for leaving England.

Stanhope, Hester Lucy, Lady, 1776-1839 --- Eccentrics And Eccentricities --- Women Travelers --- Nobility --- Middle East --- Great Britain --- Reference --- Travel --- History --- Biography & Autobiography

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Le Vieil Homme qui vendait du thé est un ancien moine bouddhiste, revenu à la vie laïque, qui trouve dans cette nouvelle activité l’occasion à la fois de « se retirer du monde » et de poursuivre des échanges agréables avec ceux qui fréquentent sa boutique, attirés par sa sagesse et sa culture. Nous sommes au Japon, à Kyoto, au XVIIIe siècle, à l’apogée de l’ère d’Edo. À travers cet « excentrique exemplaire » - Socrate extrême-oriental - et avec l’étude de la civilisation d’Edo, c’est un pan extrêmement attachant de la culture japonaise que nous décrit avec brio et enthousiasme François Lachaud, proposant ainsi une réflexion passionnante sur les rapports entre excentricité et ascèse, qui met à mal les clichés occidentaux.

Eccentrics and eccentricities --- Asceticism --- History --- Buddhism --- Japan --- Social life and customs --- Japanese literature and culture --- 18th century --- Criticism. --- Ascetical theology --- Contempt of the world --- Theology, Ascetical --- Christian life --- Ethics --- Cranks (Persons) --- Eccentricities --- Fixed ideas --- Characters and characteristics --- Curiosities and wonders --- Personality --- Eccentrics and eccentricities - Japan - History - 18th century --- Asceticism - Buddhism - History - 18th century --- Japan - Social life and customs - 1600-1868

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