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This essay develops an ecocritical reading of Paul Scarron's Le roman comique through a focus on the earth, animals, and other components of the physical environments surrounding Scarron's characters. My analysis of the novel's "earthiness," an aspect observed by numerous critics yet underdeveloped in scholarship on Scarron, results in a critical reassessment of the world view proposed by Le roman comique. A key figure in Scarron's antinovelistic inquiry into humanity's place in the physical world is the character Ragotin, whose repeated loss of humanity coincides meaningfully with proximity to the earth. |
