TY - EJOUR TI - The instrumentalization of the poor in the French novel of the Enlightenment T2 - Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France 2 – 2022, 122e année, n° 2. varia DO - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-13166-3.p.0005 SN - 2105-2689 AB - With a humanist pretext, the authorities who had assumed responsibility for the poor established a system that gave them a predefined role, condemning them to permanent and total dependence. Because of their lack of financial means, the poor would appear easy to manipulate. As simple tools in the hands of the rich, as foils, as guinea pigs, when they are not mutilated by their fellow man, the poor appear dehumanized, even denatured, in the novelistic universe of the eighteenth century. PY - 2022 DA - 2022/05/18 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier KW - poverty, novel, Enlightenment, instrumentalization, Pygmalion, picaresque UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/revue-d-histoire-litteraire-de-la-france-2-2022-122e-annee-n-2-varia-the-instrumentalization-of-the-poor-in-the-french-novel-of-the-enlightenment.html Y2 - 2024/07/18 ER -