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• 1789. American Revolution – Optimism. • Idea that all human knowledge can be collected in an ‘encyclopédie’ – middle of 18th C. • Find references to 18th C characters in Zola, Flaubert and Balzac. (Rousseau responsible for French Revolution!) • Idea of ‘tout dire’ – analysis, investigative spirit very much alive in 18th C France. • The artist who was doing this was doing it in a structured way in the ancien regime. • ‘Voltaire in Love’ investigators looking into experiments together: analysis and pulling things apart. • Middle of 19th C. Growth of Romanticism. Spirit of investigation. • Revolution went dramatically wrong- started to guillotine revolutionaries. • Human optimism had taken a beating. • Main aim was to find a ‘lost’ wholeness. • Now wanted to ‘dire le tout’ or speak of the whole entity; they were looking for synthesis to bring it all together.
Approximate Word count = 584
Approximate Pages = 2.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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