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Title Nineteenth century French fiction writers: romanticism and realism, 1800-1860 / Catharine Savage Brosman, editor.

Publication Info. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1992.

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Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 119
Dictionary of literary biography complete online
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 119.
Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
Contents Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) -- Jules-Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808-1889) -- Petrus Borel (1809-1859) -- Champfleury (Jules-Francois-Felix Husson)(1821-1889) -- Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) -- Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) -- Alexandre Dumas pere (1802-1870) -- Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) -- Theophile Gautier (1811-1872) -- Victor Hugo (1802-1885) -- Prosper Merimee (1803-1870) -- Henry Murger (1822-1861) -- Charles Nodier (1780-1844) -- George Sand (Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin)(1804-1876) -- Etienne de Senancour (1770-1846) -- Germaine De Stael (Anne-Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein)(1766-1817) -- Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)(1783-1842) -- Eugene Sue (Marie-Joseph Sue)(1804-1857) -- Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863).
Summary Literary biographies of French fiction writers writing in the schools of Romanticism, with its emphasis on feeling and the irrational, on solitary experience, on nature, passion, and the exotic; and Realism, with its pragmatic philosophy and implied belief in the progressive amelioration of life through application of a materialist outlook and the scientific method to social problems.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web.
Original Version Original: 415 p.
System Details Mode of access: Internet.
Subject Authors, French -- 19th century -- Biography.
Authors, French.
Chronological Term 19th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject French fiction -- 19th century.
French fiction.
Novelists, French -- 19th century -- Biography.
Novelists, French.
Realism in literature.
Realism in literature.
Romanticism -- France.
Romanticism.
France.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Brosman, Catharine Savage, 1934-
Gale Group.
ISBN 0810375966
9780810375963