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... in humanities computing. MLQ 62.3-03 Wolff 7/12/01 1:21 PM Page 239 Individuality and l’Esprit Français: On Gustave Lanson’s Pedagogy Mark Wolff oland Barthes once observed that the teaching of literary history R in the French school...

..., charmant, et subtil auteur de 1’Astrke . . . avait donni (A Racine) de bien meilleures leqons de psychologie que I’auteur du Traitk des Passions.”s Gustave Lanson, however, has discussed in detail the literary significance of the TruitB. In an article entitled “Le Hkros cornklien et le...

... Capacelli (Moland, XL, 471 [July 21, 17603). In his Lettres philosophi- ques, according to Mrs. Schlegel (p. 13), Voltaire attributes to Shaftesbury the essential background of Pope’s Essay on Man. Using the composite text of Moland, however, and not the critical edition of Lanson, she appears...

.... Using the composite text of Moland, however, and not the critical edition of Lanson, she appears not to have noticed that this remark, somewhat derogatory in intention, was not found in the original edition of 1734, but was added years later when Voltaire’s attitude toward optimism had...

... Mercure Galant, described the Princesse similarly.8 Among critics, Lanson drew the parallel most explicitly. An array of scholars and writers picked up the thread: Calvet, Raynal, Schlum- berger, DCdCyan, Doubrovsky, VigCe, Fraisse, and others claimed kin- ship in theme...

... by these editions. This procedure is the same as that followed by Lanson, Andre Morize, G. Ascoli, and Ira 0. Wade in their critical editions of Voltaire’s works. In the case of the Additions I.? la Lettre sur les aveugles, which Diderot wrote toward the end of his life, Professor Niklaus was able...

... Lanson, Manuel bibliographique de la littkratwe frungaise moderne and its supplements. Modern studies of Ronsard center around the work of Paul Laumonier, whose contribution to our knowledge of Ronsard can- not be overestimated. Aside from his two editions of Ronsard’s complete works...

... is to say, of a national literature. And if someone like Lanson abjures Taine’s geographical determinism, refusing to open his History of French Literature onto a panoramic view of the landscape of France, it’s only to replace it with a portrait of the Frenchman that adds the gratuitousness...

... this influ- ence are facts of literary history too well known to merit elabora- tion. The influence of Darwin is less well known. Gustave Lanson appraises thus the contributions of these three men to modern thought : Taine . . . Renan . . . Darwin . . . voila les trois...

... he did read thoroughly all he seems to have read, another Lanson-Thibaudet-Boisdeffre is in the bud. Not only has he covered everything conceivably understood by his title down to manuscripts and to reports of never-published plays, but he has had recourse to countless possible sources...

... as a focal point for studies of seventeenth-century French letters, and of French literature tout court . Turn-of-the-century critics such as Gustave Lanson, René Bray, and Eugène Rigal attributed to “l’époque classique” under Louis XIV a quintessentially French “génie” that had the distinction of being...

... Newton’s, envisaged the universe as a machine, but as a machine in a continuous developmental process of destruction and creation. God, as Voltaire noted, also ~ 1 Dr. Vartanian is apparently unaware of Lanson’s article, “L’Influence de la philosophie cartksienne sur la...

... in distinguishing critic from scholar. But, to take an instance or two, not everyone will agree with his inclusion of BCdier, Lanson, and Thibaudet, and his exclusion of Peyre and Spitzer, or his saying aye to Hazard and nay to Baldensperger. But the compiler is not a machine, and his betrayal of his...

..., envisaged the universe as a machine, but as a machine in a continuous developmental process of destruction and creation. God, as Voltaire noted, also ~ 1 Dr. Vartanian is apparently unaware of Lanson’s article, “L’Influence de la philosophie cartksienne sur la litterature...

... of Gustave Lanson, a French professor of rhetoric, served Khālidī’s purpose. Lanson “read a literary work through the author’s psychological biography, the historical situation of the nation, and the long-term evolution of the relevant genres” (Lanson, Rand, and Hatcher 1995 : 223). This methodology...

... in Zola’s early letters (especially those ad- dressed to Jean-Baptiste Baille), and in Trois ViZZes, Fe‘codite‘, Tra- vail, and the famous J’Accztse. Zola’s definition of art as “la nature 1 G. Lanson, Histaire de la litte‘rature frangaise, 238 id. (Paris, n.d p. 994. 2 Except when otherwise...

... of Washington Press, 1965. ix + 188 pp. $6.00. The late Geoffroy Atkinson once told me that it was Gustave Lanson, the great inspirer and guide of several generations of scholars, who, at Columbia University in 1916, first suggested to him a doctoral thesis on the “Extraordinary Voyage...

... and report all. If indeed he did read thoroughly all he seems to have read, another Lanson-Thibaudet-Boisdeffre is in the bud. Not only has he covered everything conceivably understood by his title down to manuscripts and to reports of never-published plays, but he has had recourse to countless...

... as Taine, BrunetiPre, and Lanson. What Vaughan wrote in 1915, what Folki- erski said in 1925, what Schinz stated in 1929, what Wilson wrote in 1931- RICHARD L. FRAUTSCHI 415 all these commentaries have an enduring relevance for Wade, as do more re- cent...

... revues et de la presse qui faisaient la conspiration du silence. I1 donne une liste des abonnks de 1906, environ 1100. On relhve parmi eux quelques noms de la littkrature : Faguet, Lanson, France, Gide. Nkanmoins le succ6s a ktk conquis contre le monde des lettres, con- clut Rolland, et ce ne...