This article examines the life and work of Henri-Frederic Amiel,
19th-century Swiss diarist. It argues that his.journal provides an
exemplary text through which to examine the issues of
pathographesis, or the writing out of illness. Situating the diary
within the Romantic contexts of melancholy and self-exploration,
it shows that Amiel took themes and genre further than ever
before, producing a piece of writing that both defines and creates
his ills. Amiel s relationship with his diary is tense and tragic: it
is therapy but also poison and comes to embody personal and
professional sterility. Thus ideas of pathographesis have to be
extended to cover the semitextual limbo in which Amiel subsisted,
where "writing out" illness was more fraught than merely "writing
about" it.
George Rousseau is Research Professor of the Humanities at De Montfort
University and holder of a Leverhulme Trust Award for 1999-2001. He is a
winner of the James Clifford Prize, awarded by the American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies for the best article of the year.
Caroline Warman was Leverhulme Research Fellow at De Montfort University
(1999-2001). Her most recent book is Sade: From Materialism to Pornography.
The authors would like to acknowledge the generosity of the Leverhulme
Trust, during the course of whose grant this work was undertaken. We would
also like to thank the anonymous SGS reader who suggested that we address
the issue of the imagery in Amiel s fantasies and who also offered the phrase
-* "infernal negation."
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