Ishmael is set in Brittany and Paris, mainly between 1850 and 1867, during the reign of Louis Napoleon
. The title character is the son of a Breton aristocrat, despised by his father on...
Reception
Sappho
This drew on a female type established in the bohemian fiction of Honoré de Balzac
, Eugène Sue
, and others. Daudet's novel was the source of a play by Clyde Fitch which opened on...
Textual Production
Mary Russell Mitford
She dedicated this work to Henry Chorley
, without whose persuasion, she said, she would not have written it.
Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley, 1852, 3 vols.
prelims
French and American editions soon followed.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
The Wandering Jew, a play adapted by MW
from Eugène Sue
's long, unwieldy novel Le Juif errant (serialized in French from June 1844 to July 1845), was performed at the National Theatre
in London.
Wandor, Michelene, and Mike Alfreds. The Wandering Jew. Methuen, 1987.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Margaret Fuller
In her review Miss Barrett
's Poems she praised the English poet's majesty and her poetic vision but noted also her lack of economy and the stiffness of her verse.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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She reviewed works by...
Timeline
1842-43: Eugène Sue published Les mystères de Par...
Writing climate item
1842-43
Eugène Sue
published Les mystères de Paris.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
1844-45: Eugène Sue published Le Juif errant....
Writing climate item
1844-45
Eugène Sue
published Le Juif errant.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
1903: An infamous text designed to arouse paranoia...
Building item
1903
An infamous text designed to arouse paranoia and anti-semitic hatred, known in English as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion made its first appearance as a newspaper serial in St Petersburg.
Jones, Thomas, editor. “Short Cuts”. London Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2005, p. 18.