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Life of Isabelle de Charriere, writer and friend of Benjamin Constant.
Author : Geoffrey Scott
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Page : 242 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 1925
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Life of Isabelle de Charriere, writer and friend of Benjamin Constant.
Author : Geoffrey Scott
Publisher : HarperPerennial
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Zelide lived in her father's moated castle in Holland, like a fairytale princess in a tower. She was the clever, sexy, mercurial young Dutch blue-stocking with whom Boswell fell disastrously in love in 1764. The rest of Zelide's story was unknown until the young Boswell scholar Geoffrey Scott pieced it together from her intimate letters and essays. Subsequent affairs with a cynical cavalry officer, a celebrated but vacillating writer (aptly named Benjamin Constant), and a thoroughly reliable music master, took her eventually to another fairytale mansion in Switzerland. This portrait of a belle-espirit is one of a series of biographies of literary figures presented by Richard Holmes
Author : Geoffrey Scott
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Page : 215 pages
File Size : 31,85 MB
Release : 1931
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Author : Geoffrey Scott
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Authors, French
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Author : Cecil P. Courtney
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Page : 288 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 1983
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Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0007372027
‘Lives that Never Grow Old’ is a wonderful series– edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive.
Author : Suzanna van Dijk
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042019980
Recense les contributions des conférenciers lors du congrès international organisé à l'Unverisité d'Utrech en avril 2005 qui commémore le bicentenaire de la mort d'Isabelle de Charrrière.
Author : Jenene J. Allison
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780874135664
In fact, her originality extends far beyond this scale. Charriere's novels not only work with literary conventions, they work on these conventions. For example, the figure of the heroine, plotted according to a standard plot line, serves at a more complex level to undermine the image of woman embedded in the heroine. Most telling are heroines plotted in the context of the French Revolution; they reflect the repressive image of woman that would emerge from the combination of republican ideology with the growing emphasis on maternalism. Surprisingly modern in this regard, these novels confirm recent interpretations of the gendering of the social sphere after the Revolution.
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Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 1925
Category : English literature
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Author : John Middleton Murry
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Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 1924
Category : English prose literature
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