In his own lifetime, Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque was known as a political theorist, as the courageous defender of liberal causes, and as a notable historian of the religious experience of mankind. Through his journals, autobiographical works and correspondence - documents largely unknown to his contemporaries - subsequent generations have discovered in Constant a complex personality and have seen in Adolphe one of the greatest French novels of psychological analysis. In recent decades a number of private archives have become accessible to scholars for the first time, and this has...
In his own lifetime, Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque was known as a political theorist, as the courageous defender of liberal causes, and as a not...
Dr Wood traces in detail the frequently paradoxical development of themes and situations introduced in the opening chapters and lays stress on the novel's intricate writing. He places the book in its historical, intellectual and biographical context and examines its reception by writers as various as Stendhal, George Eliot, and Tolstoy.
Dr Wood traces in detail the frequently paradoxical development of themes and situations introduced in the opening chapters and lays stress on the nov...
Ce neuvieme volume de la Correspondance generale comprend 416 lettres ecrites ou recues par Constant au cours des annees 1813-1815. Cette periode commence pour lui dans l'isolement et la monotonie de la vie conjugale a Gottingen, mais bientot l'Empire francais commence a chanceler apres la defaite decisive de Napoleon, ce qui inspirera a Constant l'un de ses grands ouvrages politiques, De l'esprit de conquete et de l'usurpation (1814). Dans le present volume nous suivons les efforts d'un ecrivain qui cherche a se forger une carriere politique en France. En 1814/15 sa vie...
Ce neuvieme volume de la Correspondance generale comprend 416 lettres ecrites ou recues par Constant au cours des annees 1813-1815. Cette ...
