C W Thompson

French Romantic Travel Writing

Chateaubriand to Nerval

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Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering overview of the travel books produced by fourteen French Romantic writers - including Chateaubriand, Sta¿ Stendhal, Hugo, Nerval, Sand, M¿m¿ Dumas, and Tristan - whose journeys ranged from Peru to Russia and from North America to North Africa and the Near East.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 466
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 160mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 818g
• ISBN-13: 9780199233540
• ISBN-10: 0199233543
• Artikelnr.: 53405324

Autorenporträt

C.W. Thompson is Emeritus Professor of French, University of Warwick. He is the author of Le Jeu de l'ordre et de la liberté dans La Chartreuse de Parme (1982), Lamiel fille du feu. Essai sur Stendhal et l'énergie (1997), Walking and the French Romantics, Rousseau to Sand and Hugo (2003), and the editor of L'Autre et le sacré: Surréalisme, cinéma, ethnologie (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

* Select Chronology
* I: Introduction
* II: The Birth of a Fashion (1): Empire and Exile
* III: The Birth of a Fashion (2): High Hopes Restored
* IV: From Fashion to Ritual: Itineraries and Incentives
* V: The Pleasures and Challenges of Subjectivity: From Dreams, Humour,
and Self-Consciousness to Autobiography
* VI: Between Dreams, Desires, and Realities (1): Switzerland and the
Romantic 'North'
* VII: Between Dreams, Desires, and Realities (2): The 'Orient' and
Spain Towards the 'Orient'
* VIII: Between Dreams, Desires, and Realities (3): The 'Orient' of the
Maghreb and the Old Levant
* IX: Women Travellers and Autobiography
* X: The Wish to Guide and to Inform: The Genre under Pressure
* XI: Nature, Science, Vision
* XII: Intertextuality and the Quest for Literary Energy
* XIII: Avatars to Decadence and Future Directions
* Select Bibliography
* Index