L’image des femmes politiques sur les blogs personnels

<P align=left><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Our paper deals with the way political women use their personal blogs to build a positive, confident, reliable image before the readers. We are interested in how they use this nonconventional media to consolidate their status in the public sphere, how they establish the feed-back with their readers and what is the impact of this feed-back on their public image.</FONT></FONT></I></P>

(Il)Legitimate Appendages: The Case of Psalmanazar’s Prefaces

<P align=left><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">In 1704, George Psalmanazar, a supposed native of the island of Formosa, added his own fabulous construction of another world to an England which was already abundant in fictitious travel accounts. Written 60 years later, Psalmanazar’s own Memoirs did not manage to cast a clear light on the author’s inauthentic discourse. The problematic of legitimacy in relation to historical writings and works of fiction turned into a debatable cultural issue during the European eighteenth century. The great libraries and collections of manuscripts set up by Cotton or Pepys in the seventeenth century were later to be taken on by eighteenth-century scholars, whose job was to assess and legitimate their value. Psalmanazar’s fictitious account passed for a true description of Formosa after it had promoted textual and visual appendages to legitimate the authorial voice. The present article will look at the methods Psalmanazar used to legitimate both the authorial practices and the cultural and literary background against which eighteenth-century outstanding writers, such as Goldsmith and Swift, used Psalmanazar as a source of legitimate inspiration for their writings. </FONT></FONT></I></P>