The Consecration of the Writer, 1750-1830 Book

	Preface
	Translator's Introduction
	A Note on the Translation
	Author's Note
	Introduction	1
1	In Quest of a Secular Ministry	11
	The "Man of Letters" and the New Faith	11
	The Poet in the Age of Enlightenment	30
	The Revolutionary Crisis	39
2	The Poet Consecrated	51
3	Illuminism and Poetry: Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin	59
4	Counterrevolution and Literature	73
	The Denunciation of the Man of Letters	76
	Poetry versus Philosophy	84
	The Sacred Poet and the Christian Poet	88
	Sensibility and Religion	92
	The Genie du Christianisme or the Conversion of the Man of Sensibility	95
	Ambiguities of the Counterrevolution	98
	Pierre-Simon Ballanche	102
	First Appearance of the Poet: Lamartine's Beginnings	112
5	The Liberal Contribution	135
	Senancour	135
	The Early Nodier and the Meditateurs	146
	Secular Spiritualism: Aesthetics	153
	Germaine de Stael and Benjamin Constant	159
	Eclecticism: Cousin, Jouffroy	170
6	The Poetics of the Theosophist	183
7	The Romantic Revolution	189
	Royalist Romanticism	190
	La Muse Francaise	197
	Liberal Romanticism: Stendhal	205
	The Liberals and Poetry	218
	Romantic Unity, Nodier, the Second Cenacle	226
	Romanticism and French Society	237
8	The Beginnings of the Great Generation	243
	Alfred de Vigny	243
	Victor Hugo	262
	Sainte-Beuve	286
9	1830 and the Jeune-France	297
	Youthful Romanticism and the Bourgeoisie	298
	The "Jeune-France," or Petit Cenacle	302
	Petrus Borel	308
	Philothee O'Neddy	311
	Gerard de Nerval	317
	Theophile Gautier	321
	Final Reflections	333
	Notes	343
	Index	433