The Life and Travels of Xavier Marmier (1808-1892): Bringing World Literature to France
The Life and Travels of Xavier Marmier (1808-1892): Bringing World Literature to France
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Abstract
This is the first critical biography of Xavier Marmier. The celebrity of Marmier was such that his death made headline news in most major newspapers in France. Marmier earned his reputation by being a traveller, travel writer, translator, literary critic, comparatist, journalist, novelist, poet, lecturer, linguist, ethnologist, social historian, and latterly as an outspoken member of the Académie Française. His work had a great deal of influence, both direct and indirect, on literary and intellectual developments in France, and also had a significant impact in a number of the countries he visited. Although his name still figures in studies of comparative literature or the history of travel writing, Marmier's innovations have gradually been eclipsed by his successors in various fields, resulting in the neglect of his overall achievements. Marmier's numerous and diverse achievements are assessed in their intellectual and historical context, and within the framework of his colourful and somewhat controversial private life. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of the history of nineteenth-century French literature and intellectual life, the history of literary criticism, travel writing, the introduction of foreign literature to France, and those with an interest in the intellectual, social, and cultural history of the regions Marmier visited.
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Introduction
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Formative Years in the Franche-Comté (1808–31)
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Germany (1832–5): ‘la rêveuse, la poétique, la mélancolique Allemagne’
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Iceland (1836): ‘L’Invitation au voyage’
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Denmark (1837): ‘le bon, le noble pays du Danemark’
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The Early Swedish Experience (1837–8): ‘jours de paix, d’étude, d’amour’
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Sweden II (1838): Norway, Lapland, and the Northern Star
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Star Status: Rennes and Spitzbergen (1839)
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Into Hostile Territory: Holland and Russia (1840–2)
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From the Doubs to the Desert (1843–6)
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Revolution and Republic (1848–50)
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The Transitional Years (1851–69)
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A Decade of Tumult (1870–9)
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The Last Years (1880–92)
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