Making way for genius : the aspiring self in France from the old regime to the new

Making way for genius : the aspiring self in France from the old regime to the new /

Examining the lives and works of three iconic personalities--Germaine de Staël, Stendhal, and Georges Cuvier--Kathleen Kete creates a groundbreaking cultural history of ambition in post-Revolutionary France. While in the old regime the traditionalist view of ambition prevailed--that is, ambition as...

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Main Author: Kete, Kathleen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Staël, Germaine de.
Stendhal.
Cuvier, Georges.
1700-1899
Ambition > Social aspects > France > History > 18th century.
Ambition > Social aspects > France > History > 19th century.
Self > France > History > 18th century.
Self > France > History > 19th century.
Individuality > France > History > 18th century.
Individuality > France > History > 19th century.
Individuality.
Intellectual life.
Self.
Ehrgeiz
France > Intellectual life > 18th century.
France > Intellectual life > 19th century.
France.
History.

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