Kocay, Victor. L'Expression du sentiment dans l'oeuvre de Benjamin Constant.(Book Review)

From: Nineteenth-Century French Studies | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: Henry, Freeman G. | Copyright information

Lewiston/Queenston/Lampter. The Mellon Press, 2001. Pp. 342. ISBN 0-77347414-5

It is understandable that an overriding and unifying concept might be elusive in the works of those who lived and wrote during the period that straddles the French eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Ancien regime, revolution, empire, restoration, a persistent protean polemicism inherent in Enlightenment letters, a neo-classicism not quite ready for romanticism, it is little wonder that a Cha...

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