Word: flaubert
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...belief in the goodness of instinct. Later, this conception came to permeate French literature, and it was still later that we find in novels and plays the trio of the incomparable woman, the sublime lover and the tyrannical husband. A reaction against this conception took place in Flaubert and the younger Dumas...
Professor A. C. Van Daell of M. I. T., delivered a lecture on Guy de Maupassant last night before a full meeting of the Cercle Francais. The lecturer read selections from the prose and the poetic works of De Maupassant, and compared him with Flaubert...
...Copeland began his lecture last evening by taking up in brief detail the lately published correspondence of Matthew Arnold, Coleridge, Edward Fitzgerald, Flaubert, and Stevenson. The Coleridge volumes contain the fullest record yet printed of the poet's life, the long struggle with opium, and an indolent and irresolute nature. Arnold's letters also are largely biographical by intention, since Arnold like Thackeray was unwilling to have any formal life of himself published. A good many dry and trivial details, as well as references to persons still living, might well have been omitted; and the finical hypercritical streak...
...Copeland will lecture this evening at 8 o'clock in Sever 11 on "The Art of Letter-writing and the Letters of Matthew Arnold, Coleridge, Fitzgerald, Flaubert and Stevenson...
Lecture. The Art of Letter-writing, and the Letters of Matthew Arnold, Coleridge, Fitzgerald, Flaubert, and Stevenson. Mr. Copeland. Sever...