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The Fantastic in Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Charles Nodier ,
Elizabeth Berkebile McManus  and
Daniela Ginsburg
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Charles Nodier (1780–1844) holds the dismal distinction of being the most important French Romantic you have never heard of. A child prodigy, Nodier was reading Montaigne and Plutarch, and writing fluently in French and Latin, by the age of ten. By twenty-five he had vandalized a guillotine, founded the ironically Freemasonesque antiJacobin society called the Philadelphes, published one of the irst French works of scholarship on Shakespeare, and served a month in prison for criticizing Napoleon in the poem “La Napoléone.” It was only then that he got serious, and in 1806 Les tristes was published, a collection of short stories, poems, dialogues, and essays that marked him as a disciple of the Romanticism of Goethe and Schiller and hinted at his future affinity for the visionary, fantastic mode of E.T.A. Hoffmann.

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Criticism in Translation
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PMLA , Volume 134 , Issue 3 , May 2019 , pp. 540 - 554
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2019

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