The French Education of Henry Adams / Max I. Baym.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baym, Max I., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1951]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Examines the impact of French thought on Henry Adams by looking at his writing and his personal collection of books with underscored passages and margin notes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

I. Ancestral Background

II. Initiation

III. Introduction to History

IV. The Literary Use of Three French Historians

V. Belles Lettres

VI. Philosophie Excursion: Descartes and Pascal

VII. The Belated Romantic: Exoticism

VIII. Conclusion

Notes

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89402-3

OCLC:

1100458621