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• Winner of Winner of the 2017 R. Gapper Book Prize.

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Author:   Roger Pearson (Professor of French, Professor of French, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   1.076kg
ISBN:  

9780198754473

ISBN 10:   0198754477
Pages:   646
Publication Date:   21 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

As rewarding as it is demanding, Unacknowledged Legislators, with its constant challenge to us to rethink poetry, will be essential reading for anyone to whom nineteenth-century French poetry matters, and a satisfying exploration for all those interested in poetry of any place or time. * Rosemary Lloyd, Times Literary Supplement *

As rewarding as it is demanding, Unacknowledged Legislators, with its constant challenge to us to rethink poetry, will be essential reading for anyone to whom nineteenth-century French poetry matters, and a satisfying exploration for all those interested in poetry of any place or time. -- Times Literary Supplement

Author Information

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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