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Junius Castelnau, Essay on Romantic Literature. Paris, Le No - Lot 403
Junius Castelnau, Essay on Romantic Literature. Paris, Le Normant père, 1825. In-8 of VIII-296 pp., brown half-basane, smooth spine cold decorated with gilt filets (contemporary binding). First edition. For a long time anonymous, this work was attributed to Junius Castelnau by Pierre Jourda (Un Théoricien du romantisme, in Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France, July-September 1932). "The foreword states that the book is merely a recasting of a dissertation presented in 1820 at the Floral Games (The writing is moderate, which would confirm the date of its composition, in 1820; it deals with the question from a historical point of view, and is presented here as a milestone and a suggestive testimony, at the time when the Mercury of the 19th century began to rally to the School" (Escoffier, 562). Freckles
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