Approches du XIXe siecle.(Book Review)

Approches du XIXe siecle. By LOIC CHOTARD. Paris: Presses de l'Universite Paris-Sorbonne. 2000. 454 pp. 180 F.

Following Loic Chotard's untimely death (he would have been 40 if he had lived to see the volume under review), his colleagues marked his contribution to nineteenth-century French studies by lectures at the Musee d'Orsay, under the title 'Le Romantisme apres 1848', and a colloquium at the Sorbonne (2-3 June 2000) on 'La Vie Romantique'. The present selection of thirty-five of his articles and papers, followed by a bibliography of his publications, is a further homage to a talented scholar. The bibliography, with over eighty items, is thorough, although there is …