Author: Geoffrey Scott
Publisher: HarperPerennial
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Zelide lived in her father's moated castle in Holland, like a fairytale princess in a tower. She was the clever, sexy, mercurial young Dutch blue-stocking with whom Boswell fell disastrously in love in 1764. The rest of Zelide's story was unknown until the young Boswell scholar Geoffrey Scott pieced it together from her intimate letters and essays. Subsequent affairs with a cynical cavalry officer, a celebrated but vacillating writer (aptly named Benjamin Constant), and a thoroughly reliable music master, took her eventually to another fairytale mansion in Switzerland. This portrait of a belle-espirit is one of a series of biographies of literary figures presented by Richard Holmes
Scott on Zélide
Author: Geoffrey Scott
Publisher: HarperPerennial
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Zelide lived in her father's moated castle in Holland, like a fairytale princess in a tower. She was the clever, sexy, mercurial young Dutch blue-stocking with whom Boswell fell disastrously in love in 1764. The rest of Zelide's story was unknown until the young Boswell scholar Geoffrey Scott pieced it together from her intimate letters and essays. Subsequent affairs with a cynical cavalry officer, a celebrated but vacillating writer (aptly named Benjamin Constant), and a thoroughly reliable music master, took her eventually to another fairytale mansion in Switzerland. This portrait of a belle-espirit is one of a series of biographies of literary figures presented by Richard Holmes
Publisher: HarperPerennial
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Zelide lived in her father's moated castle in Holland, like a fairytale princess in a tower. She was the clever, sexy, mercurial young Dutch blue-stocking with whom Boswell fell disastrously in love in 1764. The rest of Zelide's story was unknown until the young Boswell scholar Geoffrey Scott pieced it together from her intimate letters and essays. Subsequent affairs with a cynical cavalry officer, a celebrated but vacillating writer (aptly named Benjamin Constant), and a thoroughly reliable music master, took her eventually to another fairytale mansion in Switzerland. This portrait of a belle-espirit is one of a series of biographies of literary figures presented by Richard Holmes
The Portrait of Zélide
Author: Geoffrey Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Portrait of Zélide
Author: Geoffrey Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Life of Isabelle de Charriere, writer and friend of Benjamin Constant.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Life of Isabelle de Charriere, writer and friend of Benjamin Constant.
The Portrait of Zélide
Author: Geoffrey Scott
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Belle de Zuylen/Isabelle de Charrière
Author: Suzanna van Dijk
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042019980
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Recense les contributions des conférenciers lors du congrès international organisé à l'Unverisité d'Utrech en avril 2005 qui commémore le bicentenaire de la mort d'Isabelle de Charrrière.
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042019980
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Recense les contributions des conférenciers lors du congrès international organisé à l'Unverisité d'Utrech en avril 2005 qui commémore le bicentenaire de la mort d'Isabelle de Charrrière.
Revealing Difference
Author: Jenene J. Allison
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874135664
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In fact, her originality extends far beyond this scale. Charriere's novels not only work with literary conventions, they work on these conventions. For example, the figure of the heroine, plotted according to a standard plot line, serves at a more complex level to undermine the image of woman embedded in the heroine. Most telling are heroines plotted in the context of the French Revolution; they reflect the repressive image of woman that would emerge from the combination of republican ideology with the growing emphasis on maternalism. Surprisingly modern in this regard, these novels confirm recent interpretations of the gendering of the social sphere after the Revolution.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874135664
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In fact, her originality extends far beyond this scale. Charriere's novels not only work with literary conventions, they work on these conventions. For example, the figure of the heroine, plotted according to a standard plot line, serves at a more complex level to undermine the image of woman embedded in the heroine. Most telling are heroines plotted in the context of the French Revolution; they reflect the repressive image of woman that would emerge from the combination of republican ideology with the growing emphasis on maternalism. Surprisingly modern in this regard, these novels confirm recent interpretations of the gendering of the social sphere after the Revolution.
The Adelphi ...
Author: John Middleton Murry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Writer
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Spectator
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
A Life of James Boswell
Author: Peter Martin
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300093124
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
"Born in Edinburgh, the 'Athens of the North', a Scot who hated living in Scotland and nourished a lifelong love affair with London, Boswell was biographer, journalist, laird, advocate, social lion, incurable rake, lover, life of the party, traveller, steadfast friend, endearing charmer, exhibitionist fool, and drunken sot. In this moving biography, Peter Martin assesses Boswell's literary achievements and uncovers the pulsating and dynamic world he thrived in, from the royal courts and the drawing rooms of fashionable ladies and gentlemen to the fleshpots of London's unsavoury underworld and the chambers of the insane. He also poignantly reveals a man in agony, easily misunderstood, relentlessly plagued by hypochondria or melancholia, buffeted like a straw in the wind by a multitude of anxieties and 'horrible imaginings'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300093124
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
"Born in Edinburgh, the 'Athens of the North', a Scot who hated living in Scotland and nourished a lifelong love affair with London, Boswell was biographer, journalist, laird, advocate, social lion, incurable rake, lover, life of the party, traveller, steadfast friend, endearing charmer, exhibitionist fool, and drunken sot. In this moving biography, Peter Martin assesses Boswell's literary achievements and uncovers the pulsating and dynamic world he thrived in, from the royal courts and the drawing rooms of fashionable ladies and gentlemen to the fleshpots of London's unsavoury underworld and the chambers of the insane. He also poignantly reveals a man in agony, easily misunderstood, relentlessly plagued by hypochondria or melancholia, buffeted like a straw in the wind by a multitude of anxieties and 'horrible imaginings'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved