Genius in France : : An Idea and Its Uses /

Genius in France : : An Idea and Its Uses / / Ann Jefferson.

This engaging book spans three centuries to provide the first full account of the long and diverse history of genius in France. Exploring a wide range of examples from literature, philosophy, and history, as well as medicine, psychology, and journalism, Ann Jefferson examines the ways in which the i...

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Jefferson, Ann,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©2015
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Enlightenment Genius
  • Chapter 1: The Eighteenth Century: Mimesis and Effect
  • Chapter 2: Genius Obscured: Diderot
  • Part II: Nineteenth-Century Genius: The Idiom of the Age
  • Chapter 3: Language, Religion, Nation
  • Chapter 4: Individual versus Collective Genius
  • Chapter 5: The Romantic Poet and the Brotherhood of Genius
  • Chapter 6: Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, and the Dynasty of Genius
  • Part III: Genius in the Clinic
  • Chapter 7: Genius under Observation: Lélut
  • Chapter 8: Genius, Neurosis, and Family Trees: Moreau de Tours
  • Chapter 9: Genius Restored to Health
  • Part IV: Failure, Femininity, and the Realist Novel
  • Chapter 10: A Novel of Female Genius: Mme de Staël's Corinne
  • Chapter 11: Balzac's Louis Lambert: Genius and the Feminine Mediator
  • Chapter 12: Creativity and Procreation in Zola's L'OEuvre
  • Part V: Precocity and Child Prodigies
  • Chapter 13: Exemplarity and Performance in Literature for Children
  • Chapter 14: Alfred Binet and the Measurement of Intelligence
  • Chapter 15: Minou Drouet: The Prodigy under Suspicion
  • Part VI: Genius in Theory
  • Chapter 16: Cultural Critique and the End of Genius: Barthes, Sartre
  • Chapter 17: The Return of Genius: Mad Poets
  • Chapter 18: Julia Kristeva and Female Genius
  • Chapter 19: Derrida, Cixous, and the Impostor
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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