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  • 2 - Cultural Transmission and the Early French Novel

  • from Part I - Beginnings: From the Late Medieval to Madame de Lafayette
  • Edited by Adam Watt, University of Exeter
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Novel in French
    Published online:
    04 February 2021
    Print publication:
    25 February 2021, pp 38-53

  • Summary

    Whereas much scholarship on the history of the novel focuses on its relationship to large narrative forms such as epic or romance, this chapter argues that the novella tradition plays a central role in the development of the novelistic world. We show how intercalated novellas, translated or adapted from Italian or Spanish, inflect the emergence of the French novelistic canon, functioning as sites at which cultural difference is explored and managed. Material from the novella tradition helps shape and define the notions of national character and identity, as well as the role of a national language, in the emerging French canon. The chapter moves from the history of translation and editing, through a discussion of Scarron and Mme de Lafayette, to a study of the politics of genre.