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Abstract
Studies on the romance novel have placed great emphasis on the importance of exoticism, whose function is, on the one hand, to “make the readers dream” of distant, carefree worlds in which they can more freely project themselves, and on the other hand, to communicate information that helps to alleviate the sense of guilt associated with reading these delegitimized, “futile” literary products. In Quebec, the most successful sentimental collection of the post-war period, “Roman d’amour,” published by Éditions Police-Journal, is surprisingly devoid of foreign spaces, every story being set in the Canadian province. Looking at a corpus of some 200 novels, this article seeks to understand the causes of this “exoticism without cosmopolitanism,” while examining what types of knowledge these narratives also carry.
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