Du héros poétique au grand homme historique ?

Abstract

Setting off from the 17th century French heroic novel with the aid of methodological tools taken by historiography and the theories of history and literature – and without neglecting the philosophies of the Enlightenment - the article of Nicolas Kokkomelis in question tries to define some aspects of the content, the morphology and the conceptual charge which contributed to the formation of the genre of the 18th century historic biography

Keywords

• historiography
• poetics
• rhetoric
• heroic novel
• biography
• 17th-18th centuries