Chapter Four. De Staël Brings the New Ideas to France

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Chapter One. What Is Criticism? 1
5. Chapter Two. Modern Literature Begins: The Ideas of Lessing and Herder 18
6. Chapter Three. The English Contribution: Coleridge and Wordsworth 47
7. Chapter Four. De Staël Brings the New Ideas to France 78
8. Chapter Five. The Ideas on the March: Sainte-Beuve and Taine 98
9. Chapter Six. The Coming of the Realists 143
10. Chapter Seven. The Two Consciences 209
11. Chapter Eight. The Russian Contribution to Realism 221
12. Chapter Nine. The Decline 240
13. Chapter Ten. The Outside Literatures in English: The Irish and the American 260
14. Chapter Eleven. The Revolt 312
15. Chapter Twelve. Where We Are 361
16. Index 379