Unacknowledged Legislators presents an original and detailed history of the theory and practice of French poetry from 1750 through to the end of the Romantic Period. Focussing on five major writers of the period, it demonstrates how the figure of the poet as lawgiver was central to the theory and practice of poetry during this period.
Unacknowledged Legislators presents an original and detailed history of the theory and practice of French poetry from 1750 through to the end of the Romantic Period. Focussing on five major writers of the period, it demonstrates how the figure of the poet as lawgiver was central to the theory and practice of poetry during this period.
Roger Pearson is a Professor of French at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in French at the Queen's College, Oxford. His research is focused on French literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and his publications include monographs on Stendhal, Voltaire, and Mallarmé, as well as translations of Voltaire, Zola, and Maupassant. This book marks completion of the first part of a research project on the Poet as Lawgiver in Nineteenth-Century France, for which he was awarded a Major Leverhulme Research Fellow (2009-11). He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
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Prologue Introduction: The Poet and the Law 1: Unacknowledged Legislators 2: The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France II Avant le déluge (1750-1789) 3: Towards a Happy Revolution III Après le déluge: Chateaubriand's Melancholy 4: Revolution, Religion, and Poetry 5: Politics and Writing IV Après le déluge: Staël's Enthusiasm 6: The Woman Writer as Lawgiver 7: The Woman Writer as Lawgiver 8: The Lawgiver as Novelist: 'Delphine' (1802) 9: The Lawgiver as Poet and Outlaw: 'Corinne' (1807) 10: The Lawgiver as Poet: 'De l'Allemagne' (1810/1813) 11: Poetry as Self-Legislation V Left or Right? 12: Poetry after the Revolution VI Lamartine's Murmur: Poetry, Politics, and Prayer 13: The Poet as Lawgiver 14: The Poet as Politician 15: The Poet at Prayer VII Hugo's Intimacy: The Private, the Public, and the Visionary 16: Private or Public? 17: Olympio 18: The Poet as Lawgiver and Visionary 19: The Poet as Genius and Promontory VIII Vigny's Elixir: Pity, Enmity, Posterity 20: A Purpose for Sadness: 'Poèmes antiques et modernes' (1826) 21: Poets and their Enemies 22: Words of Honour: 'Les Destinées. Poèmes philosophiques' (1838-1864) 23: Afterlives: 'Daphné' and the Poetry of the Future IX Conclusion: Beyond Melancholy, or a Ministry of Poets 24: 1789 and after 25: 14 July 1889 Epilogue
Prologue Introduction: The Poet and the Law 1: Unacknowledged Legislators 2: The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France II Avant le déluge (1750-1789) 3: Towards a Happy Revolution III Après le déluge: Chateaubriand's Melancholy 4: Revolution, Religion, and Poetry 5: Politics and Writing IV Après le déluge: Staël's Enthusiasm 6: The Woman Writer as Lawgiver 7: The Woman Writer as Lawgiver 8: The Lawgiver as Novelist: 'Delphine' (1802) 9: The Lawgiver as Poet and Outlaw: 'Corinne' (1807) 10: The Lawgiver as Poet: 'De l'Allemagne' (1810/1813) 11: Poetry as Self-Legislation V Left or Right? 12: Poetry after the Revolution VI Lamartine's Murmur: Poetry, Politics, and Prayer 13: The Poet as Lawgiver 14: The Poet as Politician 15: The Poet at Prayer VII Hugo's Intimacy: The Private, the Public, and the Visionary 16: Private or Public? 17: Olympio 18: The Poet as Lawgiver and Visionary 19: The Poet as Genius and Promontory VIII Vigny's Elixir: Pity, Enmity, Posterity 20: A Purpose for Sadness: 'Poèmes antiques et modernes' (1826) 21: Poets and their Enemies 22: Words of Honour: 'Les Destinées. Poèmes philosophiques' (1838-1864) 23: Afterlives: 'Daphné' and the Poetry of the Future IX Conclusion: Beyond Melancholy, or a Ministry of Poets 24: 1789 and after 25: 14 July 1889 Epilogue
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