The French Generation of 1820 / / Alan Barrie Spitzer.

Alan Spitzer approaches the history of the French Restoration by examining the experience of a particular age group born between 1792 and 1803: the generation of 1820. A predominantly male, middle-class, educated minority of this group was perceived as representing all that was most promising and sp...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1987
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 505
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Physical Description:1 online resource (354 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER 1. Introduction: The Generation as a Social Network
  • CHAPTER 2. Youth as the Age of Dissent
  • CHAPTER 3. Victor Cousin: The Professor as Guru
  • CHAPTER 4. The Globe: Flagship for a Generation
  • CHAPTER 5. The Muse Francaise, the Literary Orbit of Victor Hugo, and the Generational Fission of the Romantics
  • CHAPTER 6. The Producteur and the Search for a "New General Doctrine"
  • CHAPTER 7. Shared Assumptions and a Common Temper of Mind
  • CHAPTER 8. A Cohort of Laureats de Concours
  • CHAPTER 9. An Excess of Educated Men?
  • CHAPTER 10. Lost Illusions: Class and Generation Reconsidered
  • CHAPTER 11. A Conclusion and an Epilogue
  • Appendix A. 183 Members of the "Generation of 1820" as They Were Entered on a Two-Dimensional Matrix
  • Appendix B. A Sociogram of the Generation Network
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter