Egoists, a book of supermen: Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole France, Huysmans, Barrès, Nietzsche, Blake, Ibsen, Stirner, and Ernest Hello / By James Huneker. With portrait of Stendhal; unpublished letter of Flaubert; and original proof page of Madame Bovary.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Huneker, James, 1857-1921.

Contributor:

• Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.
• Literature, Modern.

Genre:

• Essays.
• Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

• Harriman, Karl Edwin, 1875-1935 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
• Huneker, James, 1857-1921 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 372 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : portrait, facsimile ; 20 cm

Other Title:

Egoists

Place of Publication:

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.

Contents:

• A sentimental education: Henry Beyle-Stendhal
• The Baudelaire legend
• The real Flaubert
• Anatole France
• The pessimists' progress: J.K. Huysmans
• The evolution of an egoist: Maurice Barrès
• Phases of Nietzsche. I. The will to suffer. II. Nietzsche's apostasy. III. Antichrist?
• Mystics. I. Ernest Hello. II. "Mad naked Blake". III. Francis Poictevin. IV. The road to Damascus. V. From an ivory tower
• Ibsen
• Max Stirner.

Notes:

• With half-title.
• "Published March, 1909."
• Partly republished from various periodicals.
• "Books by James Huneker": [4] p. at end.
• Dark blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt stained; other edges untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has calling card and letter inscribed to Karl Harriman by James Huneker pasted to front pastedown and endpaper.

OCLC:

685435