David to Delacroix : the rise of romantic mythology / by Johnson, Dorothy, 1950-

David to Delacroix : the rise of romantic mythology / by Johnson, Dorothy, 1950-

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French romantic travel writing : Chateaubriand to Nerval / by Thompson, C. W.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The birth of a fashion (1) : empire and exile -- The birth of a fashion (2) : high hopes restored -- From fashion to ritual : itineraries and incentives -- The pleasures and challenges of subjectivity : from dreams, humour, and self-consciousness to autobiography -- Between dreams, desires, and realities (1) : Switzerland and the romantic 'North' -- Between dreams, desires, and realities (2) : the 'Orient' and Spain towards the 'Orient' -- Between dreams, desires, and realities (3) : the 'Orient' of the Maghreb and the Old Levant -- Women travellers and autobiography -- The wish to guide and to inform : the genre under pressure -- Nature, science, vision -- Intertextuality and the quest for literary energy -- From avatars to decadence and future directions.…”

The Maclure collection of French revolutionary materials

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Divining Nature : Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France / by Cuillé, Tili Boon

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The age of Louis XIV, by Packard, Laurence Bradford, 1887-1955

Table of Contents: “…The intellectual achievements of the Great Age -- The varied aspects of history and the difficulty of synthesis -- Literature -- French literature in the period of Louis XIV -- English literature -- Art -- Architecture -- French architecture -- English architecture -- Painting : France ; Spain ; Netherlands ; Flemish school -- Sculpture -- Industrial art, furniture, the Gobelins, Louis Quatorze -- Music -- Science -- Development of the scientific method ; Newton and the new theory of universal order ; John Locke and "social science" ; Development of "natural science."…”

Inspiration Bonaparte? : German culture and Napoleonic occupation /

Table of Contents: “…Napoleon : political science and natural science. The European machine god : the image of Napoleon Bonaparte in the political writings of Jean Paul -- Saul Ascher's Napoleon -- Napoleon's campaign : models for "French" revolutionary science abroad and at home? …”
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A natural history of revolution : violence and nature in the French revolutionary imagination, 1789-1794 / by Miller, Mary Ashburn, 1979-

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