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The Portrait Of Zelide Isabelle De Charriere With Illustrations
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Book Synopsis Belle de Zuylen/Isabelle de Charrière by : Suzanna van Dijk
Download or read book Belle de Zuylen/Isabelle de Charrière written by Suzanna van Dijk and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recense les contributions des conférenciers lors du congrès international organisé à l'Unverisité d'Utrech en avril 2005 qui commémore le bicentenaire de la mort d'Isabelle de Charrrière.
Download or read book Scott on Zélide written by Geoffrey Scott and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2004 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zelide lived in her father's moated castle in Holland, like a fairytale princess in a tower. She was the clever, sexy, mercurial young Dutch blue-stocking with whom Boswell fell disastrously in love in 1764. The rest of Zelide's story was unknown until the young Boswell scholar Geoffrey Scott pieced it together from her intimate letters and essays. Subsequent affairs with a cynical cavalry officer, a celebrated but vacillating writer (aptly named Benjamin Constant), and a thoroughly reliable music master, took her eventually to another fairytale mansion in Switzerland. This portrait of a belle-espirit is one of a series of biographies of literary figures presented by Richard Holmes
Book Synopsis Isabelle de Charriere (Belle de Zuylen) by : C. D. van Strien
Download or read book Isabelle de Charriere (Belle de Zuylen) written by C. D. van Strien and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of patient research in eighteenth-century family archives. Particularly those of Belle de Zuylen's contemporaries likely to have met her. Just over twenty years after the publication of her Oeuvres completes and the subsequent biographies by Pierre and Simone Dubois and Cecil P. Courtney, this book offers much new material and places her early work in the context of that of her friends. Being in touch with other people was essential for Belle de Zuylen, whose correspondence now also includes two letters when she was seventeen and desperately in love. Among the new poems there is a fable written after a quarrel with friends, whose views on the matter are also published. Another important poem is Belle's long and witty 'epistle' in answer to complimentary verses by the editor of the journal that printed her story Le Noble. One of the many reactions by friends to this partly autobiographical tale in which Julie d'Arnonville elopes with a man her father does not approve of, came from an offended 'marquis d'Arnonville', who enclosed a lengthy comment on the story. Most of the material was found among the papers of Baron Gijsbert Jan van Hardenbroek, a colleague of Belle's father in the provincial administration. From his letters and memorandums it appears that for many years he was in love with Belle. When he finally asked her to marry him, she had already decided to leave Holland, where she had long known she would never be happy.
Book Synopsis Isabelle de Charrière (Belle de Zuylen) by : Cecil Patrick Courtney
Download or read book Isabelle de Charrière (Belle de Zuylen) written by Cecil Patrick Courtney and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabelle de Charrière, formerly best known for her friendship with James Boswell and Benjamin Constant, is now recognised as one of the most fascinating literary figures of her time, a brilliant letter-writer and gifted novelist. Cecil Courney's biography chronicles her life in a lively, comprehensive and scholarly fashion and makes full use of the original sources, notably Belle's extensive correspondence with many of the leading figures of her time. Part one covers the first thirty years of Belle de Zuylen's life from her birth in 1740 into the sheltered, leisurely and elegant milieu of an old-established Dutch aristocratic family. Her early intellectual development leads her to challenge accepted ideas and to explore in writing realms of experience undreamt of in the philosophy of the convention-ridden society in which she lives. Moving through her correspondence with Constant d'Hermenches and Boswell and the story of her many suitors, the account of this period ends in her late and unremarkable marriage (1771) to her brother's former tutor, Charles-Emmanuel de Charrière. The second part is devoted to Belle's life after her marriage. She takes up residence at Le Pontet, the Charrière family home near Neuchâtel, travels in Switzerland and Holland, forms a mysterious romantic attachment to a young man who later abandons her and, after a period spent in Paris (1786-1787), resolves never to set foot again outside Le Pontet. It is here that Belle creates a haven for intellectual activity, whose members, including the young Benjamin Constant, are brought intensely to life in her inimitable correspondence and in this thoughtful and sympathetic portrait of one of the most engaging figures of the eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Portrait of Zélide by : Geoffrey Scott
Download or read book The Portrait of Zélide written by Geoffrey Scott and published by Helen Marx Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starred review in P.W. for this Bloomsbury-era biography of Isabella "Zelide" Van Tuyll.
Book Synopsis Revealing Difference by : Jenene J. Allison
Download or read book Revealing Difference written by Jenene J. Allison and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fact, her originality extends far beyond this scale. Charriere's novels not only work with literary conventions, they work on these conventions. For example, the figure of the heroine, plotted according to a standard plot line, serves at a more complex level to undermine the image of woman embedded in the heroine. Most telling are heroines plotted in the context of the French Revolution; they reflect the repressive image of woman that would emerge from the combination of republican ideology with the growing emphasis on maternalism. Surprisingly modern in this regard, these novels confirm recent interpretations of the gendering of the social sphere after the Revolution.
Book Synopsis Subverting the Family Romance by : Charlotte Daniels
Download or read book Subverting the Family Romance written by Charlotte Daniels and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on Habermas and Freud as well as historians of the family, Daniels takes up the case of three women novelists each writing at a key moment in the parallel development of the novel genre and the modern family. She demonstrates that these writers - confronted with ever more reified exclusion from public life, and relegated to narrowly defined domestic roles - intervened in and subverted the process in their novels. Daniels shows that women writers used the novel first to imagine different social rules that might define alternative kinship systems (Graffigny), and later to find - and create - loopholes within a firmly entrenched system of official and unofficial law (Charriere and Sand)." "Spanning a crucial period in the emergence of modernity, this interdisciplinary study addresses problems in French literary and social history, gender studies, and the history of mentalites."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis The Portrait of Zélide by : Geoffrey Scott
Download or read book The Portrait of Zélide written by Geoffrey Scott and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life of Isabelle de Charriere, writer and friend of Benjamin Constant.
Book Synopsis A Life of James Boswell by : Peter Martin
Download or read book A Life of James Boswell written by Peter Martin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born in Edinburgh, the 'Athens of the North', a Scot who hated living in Scotland and nourished a lifelong love affair with London, Boswell was biographer, journalist, laird, advocate, social lion, incurable rake, lover, life of the party, traveller, steadfast friend, endearing charmer, exhibitionist fool, and drunken sot. In this moving biography, Peter Martin assesses Boswell's literary achievements and uncovers the pulsating and dynamic world he thrived in, from the royal courts and the drawing rooms of fashionable ladies and gentlemen to the fleshpots of London's unsavoury underworld and the chambers of the insane. He also poignantly reveals a man in agony, easily misunderstood, relentlessly plagued by hypochondria or melancholia, buffeted like a straw in the wind by a multitude of anxieties and 'horrible imaginings'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century by : Tanya M. Caldwell
Download or read book Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century written by Tanya M. Caldwell and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material "from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs," each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy.
Book Synopsis St. James Guide to Biography by : Paul E. Schellinger
Download or read book St. James Guide to Biography written by Paul E. Schellinger and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplies bibliographical and critical analysis of available biographies in English.
Book Synopsis Catalogs of the Sophia Smith Collection, Women's History Archive, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts: Subject catalog by : Sophia Smith Collection
Download or read book Catalogs of the Sophia Smith Collection, Women's History Archive, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts: Subject catalog written by Sophia Smith Collection and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L'Esprit créateur written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saturday Review of Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Four Tales by : Isabelle de Charrière
Download or read book Four Tales written by Isabelle de Charrière and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
