The Triumph of Imperfection
Subtitle: The Silver Age of Sociocultural Moderation in Europe, 1815-1848
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: January 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781570035937
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; History and criticism; Europe - General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Western Europe - General; European literature; Europe; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; European - General; 19th century; Romanticism
First sentence: TOWARD THE MIDDLE of Chateaubriand's masterpiece, his memoirs, the reader comes across one of the most breathtaking gestures of proud egotism and self-affirmation ever imagined.