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Stendhal's Parallel Lives

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This book deals with the important and hitherto neglected relationship between the works of Stendhal and Plutarch's Parallel Lives. Stendhal's readings of Plutarch are shown to inform his literary representations of Revolution and Empire, Restoration and Orleanism, as well as his theorizations of Romanticism. In particular, the Plutarchan concept of Parallel Lives is used to analyse one of the major themes of Stendhal's writing: the self-construction of individual identity, whether (auto)biographical or fictional, by means of the emulation (as distinct from the imitation) of heroic exemplars. As a consequence, the balance between irony and idealism often identified by critics in Stendhal's work is shown rather to be an imbalance, weighted in favour of an idealism derived from Plutarchan conceptions of heroism, particularly as they are represented in the Lives of Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus.

List of contents

Contents: The works of Stendhal (1829-42) - Plutarch's Nachleben in Western Europe - Romantic theorizations of influence - Neo-Plutarchan readings of the French Revolution and Empire - The function of emulation and imitation in the works of Stendhal - Marcus Brutus, Julius Caesar, Epaminondas and the Stendhalian hero - Anecdote, biography, autobiography and the Stendhalian novel - France and Italy in the works of Stendhal - Politics, history and cultural memory in the works of Stendhal - Biographical Sketches: Promenades dans Rome, Vie de Henry Brulard, Souvenirs d'égotisme, Mémoires sur Napoléon, Historiettes romaines, Voyages en France - Imaginary Biographies: Armance, Le Rouge et le Noir, Lucien Leuwen, La Chartreuse de Parme, Lamiel.

About the author










The Author: Born in 1970, Francesco Manzini studied History and Modern Languages at Magdalen College, Oxford. He then researched his Ph.D. in the Department of French at University College London, where he is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow working on various aspects of nineteenth-century French literature and political thought.

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«... this densely scholarly, intricate study offers a valuable resource to the committed specialist.» (Maria Scott, French Studies)

Product details

Authors Francesco Manzini
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.06.2016
 
EAN 9783039101481
ISBN 978-3-0-3910148-1
No. of pages 498
Dimensions 140 mm x 27 mm x 220 mm
Weight 670 g
Series Romanticism and after in France / Le Romantisme et après en France
Romanticism and after in France / Le Romantisme et après en France
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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