title: Sick Heroes: French Society and Literature in the Romantic Age 1750-1850 (Exeter Textes Litteraires)
author:  Allan H. Pasco 
description: <DIV><P>&#8220;A penetrating rethinking of the heroes and heroines of French romantic literature which carefully situates their plight within the broader contexts of social and cultural change in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.&#8221; &#8211;Richard D.E. Burton, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of Sussex</P></DIV> (Richard D.E. Burton)<br /><br /><DIV><P>&#8220;Meticulously documented, written in a clear and witty manner, Sick Heroes is ambitious in the scope of literature it examines and audacious in its application of modern studies in the behavioural sciences to fiction. It is a valuable addition to the criticism of the Romantic novel because of the fresh insights it brings to well-known works and for the wealth of information it provides on lesser-known literature. Its most significant contribution to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French studies, however, is the coherent and convincing psychological portrait it paints of an age so obviously afflicated with many of the problems of the twentieth century. Pasco succeeds admirably in accounting for the appeal of his unusual heroes and heroines, characters who expressed a popular mentality to a much greater degree than historians and literary scholars have previously recognized.&#8221; &#8211;<I>Philosophy and Literature,</I> April 1998</P></DIV> (<i>Philosophy and Literature</i>)<br /><br /><DIV><P>&#8220;Pasco does not preach, does not try to make literary works into the heroes or accessory villains of a political struggle in which he feels invested. Instead, they are symptoms of a sociopathology that one could readily corroborate with examples of abused and neglected children in the fictions of Hugo or Dickens. Pasco offers an impressive, harmonious blend of "hard scholarship" (investigation of original sources) and imaginative synthesis. One can anticipate that this study, like his important overview that opens Allusion (Toronto UP, 1994), will become widely influential.&#8221; &#8211;<I>Nineteenth Century French Studies, </I>Vol. 27, No 1 and 2<I></I></P></DIV> (<i>Nineteenth Century French Studies</i>)<br /><br /><DIV><P>&#8220;This attractively-written and thoroughly researched and documented study redefines Romanticism as primarily a cultural phenomenon and paints a sweeping portrait of the French people's collective mentality during the period extending from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, a time-frame which encompasses the most profound social, political, and aesthetic changes.This is a remarkably rich, infromative, and in many ways innovative examination of a crucial period in French literary and cultural history.&#8221;</P></DIV> (French Review <i>March 1999</i>)
zlib_text: **Fact and Fantasy**
  
  Brian Egan  
  Mar-o4- 2021
  
  Table of Contents
  
    * Caveats
    * Forward
    * Lizzie
    * The Arrivals
    * Growing
    * Morning
    * Nurse Lizzie.
    * Woodland
    * Wedding
    * Kent
    * Woodland
    * William
    * Flight
    * William
    * City.
    * Pemberley
    * The Estate
    * Intruder
    * Sheets
    * Visitor
  
   **Caveats**
  
  There is no connection between anyone depicted in this EText, and anyone in
  Real life, alive or dead.
  
  Copyright (2021) Brian Egan
  
   **Forward**
  
  Jane Austin,1775, 1817, English (very) novelist, would have started really
  noticing literature about the time of the French Revolution, and the changes
  that brought to Western thought. What were the popular novels about at that
  time?. Basically, boys and girls. What was happening in real life was similar,
  one of the most famous writers on the continent had decided against artificial
  romance, and moved a ordinary women he could easily live with into his home.
  However, written Romances concerning the relations betwee