Le récit de voyage et l’émergence de la littérature au tournant des xviiie et xixe siècles

This paper aims to examine the role that the “narrative of travel” may have played in the constitution of literature as a discipline and at the time of its emergence at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries and analyses the consequences, on the very definition of "literature", of whether or not the viatic gender was taken into account.