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Footsteps and Hauntings: the Theory and Practice of the ‘Romantic Biographer’in Richard Holmes’ Footsteps and Jacques Reda's Le Sens de la marche
Author(s) -
Haxell Nichola Anne
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
orbis litterarum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1600-0730
pISSN - 0105-7510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0730.1998.tb00095.x
Subject(s) - romance , parallels , theme (computing) , adventure , art , philosophy , art history , humanities , literature , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , operating system
From an investigation of four biographic studies of figures from France and England's Romantic Generation, as they unfold in Richard Holmes’ Footsteps. Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (1985), and under the dual theme of footsteps and hauntings , a working definition is established of the Romantic Biographer. This definition is then applied to Jacques Réda's Le Sens de la marche (1990) where a sequence of chapters on La Fontaine, Wordsworth, Renard, Proust and Follain are structured around similar notions of journeying, identifying and creating. A number of parallels are elucidated between the two authors, their biographic enterprise and the limits this places on their own developmental or creative processes.