Making way for genius [electronic resource] : the aspiring self in France from the old regime to the new / Kathleen Kete.
2012
DC33.4 .K47 2012eb
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Making way for genius [electronic resource] : the aspiring self in France from the old regime to the new / Kathleen Kete.
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9780300183436 (electronic book)
9780300174823
9780300174823
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New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2012.
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English
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1 online resource (x, 240 p.)
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DC33.4 .K47 2012eb
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944
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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.