Imagination and Language

A collection of essays on Constant, Baudelaire, Nerval and Flaubert, by Professor Alison Fairlie.

Editor's note; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Constant: 1. The art of Constant's Adolphe: The stylization of experience (1967); 2. The art of Constant's Adolphe: Creation of character (1966); 3. The art of Constant's Adolphe: Structure and style (1966); 4. Constant romancier: le problème de l'expression (1968); 5. L'Individu et l'ordre social dans Adolphe (1968); 6. Constant's Adolphe read by Balzac and Nerval (1972); 7. Framework as a suggestive art in Constant's Adolphe (with remarks on its relation to Chateaubriand's René) (1979); 8. The shaping of Adolphe: some remarks on variants (1979); Part II. Baudelaire: 9. Some remarks on Baudelaire's Poème du Haschisch (1952); 10. Observations sure les Petits poèmes en prose (1967); 11. Quelques remarques sur les Petits poèmes en prose (1968); 12. Aspects of expression in Baudelaire's art criticism (1972); 13. Reflections on the successive versions of 'Une Gravure fantastique' (1973); 14. 'Mène-t-on la foule dans les ateliers?' - some remarks on Baudelaire's variants (1973); 15. Baudelaire's correspondence (1974); 16. The new Pléiade edition of Baudelaire's complete works (1977); Part III. Nerval: 17. An approach to Nerval (1961); 18. Aspects of suggestion in Nerval (1965); 19. Nerval et Richelet (1958); 20. Le Mythe d'Orphée dans l'œuvre de Gérard de Nerval (1970); Part IV. Flaubert: 21. Flaubert et la conscience du réel (1967); 22. Flaubert and the authors of the French Renaissance (1968); 23. Flaubert and some painters of his time (1974); 24. Some patterns of suggestion in L'Éducation sentimentale (1969); 25. Pellerin et le thème de l'art dans L'Éducation sentimentale (1969); 26. Sentiments et sensations chez Flaubert (1974); 27. La Contradiction créatrice: quelques remarques sur la genèse d'Un Cœur simple (1979); Select bibliography; Index.