Pre-Text/Text/Context: Essays on 19th-Century French Literature

by Robert L. Mitchell

The nineteenth century in France is a nightmare for literary historians. Their thirst for categorization is more easily quenched by prior centuries, to which, because they seem unified by cohesive preoccupations and common goals, such appellations as the Renaissance, the Classical Age or le grand si cle, and the Enlightenment or Age of Ideas are appropriately applied. For the protean nineteenth century, for which no such handy tag has been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814253407
• ISBN13: 9780814253403
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"