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Making way for genius : the aspiring self in France from the old regime to the new
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Making way for genius : the aspiring self in France from the old regime to the new / Kathleen Kete.
ISBN
9780300174823 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.
Physical Description
x, 240 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 30, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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