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Genius in France : an idea and its uses /

"This engaging book spans three centuries to provide the first full account of the long and diverse history of genius in France. Exploring a wide range of examples from literature, philosophy, and history, as well as medicine, psychology, and journalism, Ann Jefferson examines the ways in which...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jefferson, Ann
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Literature Supplement.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Enlightenment Genius. 1. The Eighteenth Century: Mimesis and Effect
  • 2. Genius Obscured: Diderot
  • Part II: Nineteenth-Century. Genius: The Idiom of the Age
  • 3. Language, Religion, Nation
  • 4. Individual versus Collective Genius
  • 5. The Romantic Poet and the Brotherhood of Genius
  • 6. Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, and the Dynasty of Genius
  • Part III: Genius in the Clinic. 7. Genius under Observation: Lélut
  • 8. Genius, Neurosis, and Family Trees. Moreau de Tours
  • 9. Genius Restored to Health
  • Part IV: Failure, Femininity, and the Realist Novel. 10. A Novel of Female Genius: Mme de Staël's Corinne
  • 11. Balzac's Louis Lambert: Genius and the Feminine Mediator
  • 12. Creativity and Procreation in Zola's L'Œuvre
  • Part V: Precocity and Child Prodigies. 13. Exemplarity and Performance in Literature for Children
  • 14. Alfred Binet and the Measurement of Intelligence
  • 15. Minou Drouet: The Prodigy under Suspicion
  • Part VI: Genius in Theory. 16. Cultural Critique and the End of Genius: Barthes, Sartre
  • 17. The Return of Genius: Mad Poets
  • 18. Julia Kristeva and Female Genius
  • 19. Derrida, Cixous, and the Impostor.