Adolphe

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GENRE novel
TIME PERIOD 19th century
THE MODERN WORLD
LITERARY FORM
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Benjamin Constant. Adolphe.     (1816, France)

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II. Literary Genre: The Novel

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Benjamin Constant. Adolphe. (1816, France)

 

Supporting References:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe

2. Birch, Dinah. "Constant, Benjamin." The Oxford Companion to English Literature. : Oxford University Press, 2009. Oxford Reference. 2009. Date Accessed 15 Aug. 2013.

http://www.oxfordreference.com.libproxy.cc.stonybrook.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780192806871.001.0001/acref-9780192806871-e-1769

The article offers an overview of Constant and less a discussion on the above-cited text.

“(1767–1830) French novelist, political philosopher, and politician, born at Lausanne of a family of French Protestant origins, who had his university education at Oxford (briefly), in Germany, and at Edinburgh. He was intermittently in Paris after 1795 and held office under the Consulate, but went into exile in 1803. From Hanover he published the anti‐Napoleonic pamphlet ‘De l'esprit de conquête et de l'usurpation’ (1813). His political career in the Liberal opposition begins after the Restoration of the Bourbon dynasty. Constant is remembered for the political and religious treatises De la religion considérée dans sa source, ses formes et ses développements (5 vols, 1824–31), but much more for the literary masterpiece Adolphe (first published in London in 1816), a short novel of psychological analysis reflecting at some points his own liaison with Mme de *Staël. His Journaux intimes, first published in 1895, appeared in a complete edition in 1952; his Cahier rouge, recounting the first twenty years of his life, in 1907, and Cécile, the fragment of an autobiographical novel, in 1951. See also Charrière, Isabelle de.”