Excerpt from Passion and Criminality in France: A Legal and Literary Study G'uy de Maupassant, Zola himself. At the same time our Author's own personal bias in favour of the more correct and academical writers of the earlier period, as against the morbid, anaemic, hysterical - to use some of his own epithets - Novels, Plays and Poems of the Romantic School, is evident enough. All the Works originating in the impulse of the Romantic revival of 1830 and onwards, he clearly regards as without ex ception showing more or less ...
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Excerpt from Passion and Criminality in France: A Legal and Literary Study G'uy de Maupassant, Zola himself. At the same time our Author's own personal bias in favour of the more correct and academical writers of the earlier period, as against the morbid, anaemic, hysterical - to use some of his own epithets - Novels, Plays and Poems of the Romantic School, is evident enough. All the Works originating in the impulse of the Romantic revival of 1830 and onwards, he clearly regards as without ex ception showing more or less manifest traces of nervous derangement and diseased mental conditions on the part of their authors. Any way the literary aspect of the book is far from being the least attractive and suggestive. M. Proal's discussion of Wert/zer in particular and other books, such as jean Jacques Rousseau's, of the same period and tendency, in their bearing on suicide, being profoundly interesting, and, indeed, a masterpiece of its kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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