The great Danish critic turns to France after 1824, when a young generation rose against the classical tradition. Brandes sets out the political background and the generation of 1830, then studies its writers one by one, from Nodier through Hugo, Vigny, Musset, George Sand, Balzac, Stendhal and Mérimée.
A volume of Brandes’s Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature that stands on its own as a study of French Romanticism. Download the free EPUB.