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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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: Lelut
- 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'Oeuvre
- 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.