Chateaubriand in exile in England: champion of a new aesthetics of landscape?
Résumé
The article proposes to review Chateaubriand's attitude towards landscape through the perspective of picturesque aesthetics, investigating his close links with this new way of looking at nature and art. It also surveys the writer's immersion in the cultural and social background of North Suffolk, heartland of some important landscape painters and patrons of the period. Finally, the article also considers Chateaubriand's involvement in spreading the new aesthetics in France.