- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 The Eighteenth Century -
Chapter 2 Genius Obscured -
Chapter 3 Language, Religion, Nation -
Chapter 4 Individual versus Collective Genius -
Chapter 5 The Romantic Poet and the Brotherhood of Genius -
Chapter 6 Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, and the Dynasty of Genius -
Chapter 7 Genius under Observation -
Chapter 8 Genius, Neurosis, and Family Trees -
Chapter 9 Genius Restored to Health -
Chapter 10 A Novel of Female Genius -
Chapter 11 Balzac’s Louis Lambert -
Chapter 12 Creativity and Procreation in Zola’s L’Œuvre -
Chapter 13 Exemplarity and Performance in Literature for Children -
Chapter 14 Alfred Binet and the Measurement of Intelligence -
Chapter 15 Minou Drouet -
Chapter 16 Cultural Critique and the End of Genius -
Chapter 17 The Return of Genius -
Chapter 18 Julia Kristeva and Female Genius -
Chapter 19 Derrida, Cixous, and the Impostor - Bibliography
- Index
The Romantic Poet and the Brotherhood of Genius
The Romantic Poet and the Brotherhood of Genius
- Chapter:
- (p.67) Chapter 5 The Romantic Poet and the Brotherhood of Genius
- Source:
- Genius in France
- Author(s):
Ann Jefferson
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter traces the emergence of a new poetry that presents its credentials as lying not with any preexisting literary or national tradition, but with the genius of the individual poet. Despite the real success of the volumes published in this spirit, the poet is portrayed, like Moses abandoned by his people, as having no public. The collective “other” that might afford him recognition is absent, and in the words of Victor Hugo, his was a voice crying in the wilderness, and singing to the deaf. The new poets thus enter the literary field announcing in advance that they will go unheard by a world that is fundamentally hostile.
Keywords: Romantic poets, rejected genius, martyred genius, poetry, public recognition, individual genius, Victor Hugo
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 The Eighteenth Century -
Chapter 2 Genius Obscured -
Chapter 3 Language, Religion, Nation -
Chapter 4 Individual versus Collective Genius -
Chapter 5 The Romantic Poet and the Brotherhood of Genius -
Chapter 6 Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, and the Dynasty of Genius -
Chapter 7 Genius under Observation -
Chapter 8 Genius, Neurosis, and Family Trees -
Chapter 9 Genius Restored to Health -
Chapter 10 A Novel of Female Genius -
Chapter 11 Balzac’s Louis Lambert -
Chapter 12 Creativity and Procreation in Zola’s L’Œuvre -
Chapter 13 Exemplarity and Performance in Literature for Children -
Chapter 14 Alfred Binet and the Measurement of Intelligence -
Chapter 15 Minou Drouet -
Chapter 16 Cultural Critique and the End of Genius -
Chapter 17 The Return of Genius -
Chapter 18 Julia Kristeva and Female Genius -
Chapter 19 Derrida, Cixous, and the Impostor - Bibliography
- Index
