Author: Bowman, Frank Paul
Title: French Romanticism: Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Readings
Description: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, (1990). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xii, 237 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Topoi & Echoes: Literature, Politics, Religion, Erudition, & Imitation: The Comparison of Jesus & Socrates; "Christ Put An End To Slavery"; Napoleon as a Christ Figure; Pastiches of Lamennais's 'Words of a Believer'; The Intertextual Flow of Romantic Discourse: "Precious Blood" in Religion, Literature, Eroticism, & Politics; From History to Hysteria: 19th-Century Discourse on Loudun; Redefining Romanticism by Interdisciplinarity: The Theory of Harmonies; Symbol & Desymbolizing; Interdisciplinary Explication of Texts: The 'Mémorables' of Nervals 'Auré lia'; Flaubert's 'Temptation of St. Anthony'; Conclusion.

Keywords: French Romantic Literature, Literary Criticism, Critical Theory, Romanticism, , , , ,