Différence des sexes et désordre amoureux dans la littérature romantique française

Abstract

French Romantic literature can be understood as an alternative discourse on love, gender and sexuality in its opposition to the modernization of a normative sexuality grounded on the combination of the laws of nature and the laws of the Code civil in order to assign every human being a destiny stamped on the sex of his birth. The concept of heterosexual trouble, based on the study of heterosexual couples in love in French Romantic literature, illustrates that the reinvention of love aims at designing another dialectics of femininity and masculinity in order to articulate a new social contract for the subjects in love.

Keywords

• love
• romanticism
• heterosexuality
• disorder
• queer
• transtextualisation