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Monday, October 1, 2012

Contents for Vol. II !

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Sorry I haven't been able to stir up much discussion on the current reading, I have been (and still am) busy preparing Vol. II of the reader, which we will be moving onto at the end of the month. This volume will be around 350 pages (!!!) long, and as you can see involves many more readings by twice as many different people as the volume we are currently on. Many of the readings are shorter and more targetted. There are many other differences as well, which I hope will make it a more comprehensive and suggestive glimpse into the complexity and diversity of French culture at the period.

 I still have about 40 hours of formatting, copy-editing, image-selection, and writing of introductions and captions to do before the proof goes to the printer in one week, but this is the final Table of Contents for Vol. II, covering 1827-1847:


I.  The Romanticist Revolution

Classicism and Romanticism 
from Nicolas Boilieau, The Art of Poetry (1674)
from Théophile Gautier, A History of Romanticism (1874)
from Victor Hugo, Preface to ‘Cromwell’ (1827)
from Théophile Gautier, Daniel Jovard: the Conversion of a Classicist (1833)

Romanticism and Politics
Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Farewell to the Country (1821)
from Victor Hugo, Preface to Hernani (1830)
from Alphonse Brot, Preface to Songs of Love (1830)
From Philothée O’Neddy (aka Théophile Dondey), Letter to Charles Asselineau (Sept. 23, 1862)

The Struggle for Culture: The Battle of Hernani
from Victor Hugo, Preface to Hernani (1830)
from Théophile Gautier, A History of Romanticism (1872)
Victor Hugo, Hernani, Act I (1830)
from Stendhal, The Red and the Black (1831)
from Théophile Gautier, A History of Romanticism (1872)
Victor Hugo, At the Academy (1850)


II.  The July Revolution and the ‘Citizen King’

from Victor Hugo, Royer-Collard (1843)
                                from Les Miserables 
Pierre-Jean de Béranger, The Tombs of July (1832)
from François Guizot, Speech of February 20, 1831.
from Louis Bourbon X & Ministry, Preamble toThe Charter of 1814
French National Assembly, Preamble to The Charter of 1830
Before & After: from The Charters of 1814 & 1830.

Liberalism vs. Radicalism in the July Monarchy
from François Guizot, Speech of Oct. 5, 1831.
Pierre-Jean de Béranger, The Restoration of Song (1831). 
From Prosper Olivier Lissagaray, History of the Paris Commune of 1871 (1876)


III.  High Culture, Popular Culture, and Counterculture

Poetry of Romanticism
Auguste Barbier, Popularity
Alfred de Musset, On One Dead (1842)
Antony Deschamps, Last Words
Marceline Debords-Valmore, ‘The Roses of Saadi
Elisa Mercoeur, Philosophy

Romanticist Painting
from Théophile Gautier, A History of Romanticism (1874)
Louis Boulanger, To My Friend Charles Saint-Beuve (c.1833)
from Charles Baudelaire, The Salon of 1845.
           The Salon of 1859
The Universal Exhibition (1855)

Romanticism and Popular Culture
From Eugene Sue, The Mysteries of Paris (1842-43)
from Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame of Paris (1831)
from Charles Baudelaire, The Salon of 1845
from Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions (1837)
from Victor Hugo, Funeral of Mlle. Mars (1847)
from Robert Harborough Sherard, Alexandre Dumas’ Ghost (1905)
from Charles Baudelaire, The Salon of 1859
from Auguste Maquet and Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
From George Sand, Mauprat (1836)
from Victor Hugo, Han of Iceland (1823)

The Romanticist Avant-Garde
from Théophile Gautier, A History of Romanticism (1872)
From Philothée O’Neddy (aka Théophile Dondey), Letter to Charles Asselineau (Sept. 23, 1862)
Aloysius Bertrand, ‘To Victor Hugo’ (1836)
from The Treasurer of Night (1842)
           ‘The Alchemist’
           ‘The Dead Horse’
           ‘The Salamander’
Gérard de Nerval, Poems (1826-55)
           ‘The Black Spot’
           ‘Lines to a Greek Air’
           ‘Sonnet’
Petrus Borel, Preface to Rhpsodies (1832)
from Joseph Bouchardy, Letter to Théophile Gautier, Jan. 12, 1857.
Petrus Borel, Hymn to the Sun (1832)
from Prologue to Madame Putiphar 
From Théophile Gautier, The Jeunes-France (1833)
From Joseph Bennett, Hector Berlioz
From Victor Hugo, Preface to Han of Iceland (1823)
from Théophile Gautier, Daniel Jovard: the Conversion of a Classicist (1833)
Anonymous, Review of ‘Champavert’ by Pétrus Borel (1833)
From Béranger, The Restoration of Song (1831)
Philothée O’Neddy, from to Fire and Flame (1833)
           Forward
           ‘The Fairest Death’
           ‘Sonnet’
           ‘Fanaticism’
from Théophile Gautier, Preface to Mlle. de Maupin (1835)


Capitalism & Dissent

Liberal Capitalism
from Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762)
From Théophile Gautier, Preface to Mlle. de Maupin (1835)
From Victor Hugo, A Soirée at M. Guizot’s (1846)
From François Guizot, Speech of Feb. 15, 1842.

Property and Insurrection
from Pierre Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? (1840)
from Victor Hugo, Diary of a Passer-by, During the Riot of the 15th of May (1839)
from Friedrich Engels & Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848)

Politics and Gender
from Caroline H. Dall,  Women’s Rights Under the Law, in Three Lectures (1861)
from Charles Fourier, The Theory of the Four Movements (1808)
from Arthur John Booth, Saint-Simon and Saint-Simonism: A Chapter in the History of Socialism in France (1871)
from Théophile Gautier, Mlle. de Maupin (1835)

Romanticism and Realism
From Théophile Gautier, Mlle. De Maupin (1835)
From Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856)
from Charles Baudelaire, The Salon of 1845.
           The Salon of 1859
From Stendhal, The Red and the Black (1831)
From Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions (1837)
From Charles Baudelaire, Some French Caricaturists

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