Chateaubriand: The Paradox of Change

by Malcolm Scott

Overview

This reassessment of Chateaubriand centres on the concept of change and his emotional suspicion of change, arising both from mistrust of his own inconstancy and from the suffering of the French Revolution. His aversion to change spread beyond politics to religion and literature, but conflicted with his intellectual fascination with historic change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034318457
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	11/28/2014
Series:	Romanticism and after in France / Le Romantisme et après en France , #25
Pages:	259
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Malcolm Scott is an emeritus professor of the University of St Andrews, where he worked for many years as head of the French Department and School of Modern Languages, while also being an active researcher in the fields of French literature and politics. He was founder of the St Andrews Institute for European Identity Studies and a founder member of the Société des Études Mauriaciennes. He was appointed Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1999. His previous writings include books on Mauriac, De Gaulle, Bernanos, the French Catholic novel and the French and American Revolutions.

Table of Contents

Contents: Change’s Victim – Revolutions Ancient and Modern – Apostle of Religious Change – New Culture for Old – Change’s Accidental Agent – Classical Preference – Champion of Freedom – The Illusion of Fixity – Finale: Change and Freedom.