Making way for genius : the aspiring self in France from the old regime to the new /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kete, Kathleen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
1700-1899
Ambition > Social aspects > France > History > 18th century.
Ambition > Social aspects > France > History > 19th century.
Self > France > History > 18th century.
Self > France > History > 19th century.
Individuality > France > History > 18th century.
Individuality > France > History > 19th century.
Ambition > Aspect social > France > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Ambition > Aspect social > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Moi (Psychologie) > France > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Moi (Psychologie) > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Individualité > France > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Individualité > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Individuality
Intellectual life
Self
France > Intellectual life > 18th century.
France > Intellectual life > 19th century.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
France
History
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.

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