Making way for genius : the aspiring self in France from the old regime to the new /
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2012.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The aspiring self in France from the old regime to the new
- Genius, Madame de Staël, and the soul of prodigious success
- Vocation, Stendhal, and the art of living ethically
- Destiny, cuvier, and post-revolutionary politics
- Friendship matters; arguments from Egypt; coda on Napoleon
- Ambition in post-revolutionary lives.