Heroism and Passion in Literature

Graham Gargett is Professor of French Culture and Ideas at the University of Ulster. Before working in Northern Ireland, he studied at the Universities of Reading and East Anglia and taught English in France for several years. His publications include Voltaire and Protestantism (Oxford, 1980), a revised version of his doctoral thesis; Jacob Vernet, Geneva and the ‘Philosophes’ (Oxford, 1994); and a monograph on the abbé Trublet published in the Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. He also co-edited, with Geraldine Sheridan, Ireland and the French Enlightenment, 1700-1800 (Basingstoke, 1999). He is currently President of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society.

• Notes on the ContributorsMoya Longstaffe: A TributeBibliography of Moya Longstaffe’s WritingsIntroductionPart One The Early Modern Period H.T. BARNWELL: Heroic Discourse? A Note on Racine’s Bérénice Angela RYAN: The Lost Heroine and the Memetics of Cultural Inscription in Euripides’s Hippolytus and Racine’s PhèdreJohn CAMPBELL: The Twilight of Heroism: Ambition and Ambitions in La Princesse de ClèvesRobert McBRIDE : Le Héros moliéresque et les pièges du langageJane McKEE; A Passion for the Scriptures: The Biblical Sonnets of Laurent DrelincourtMarité OUBRIER : La Fontaine: Anti-Hero or Reluctant Hero?Graham GARGETT : Voltaire’s L’Ingénu, the Journal chrétien and Saint-Foix: A New Source for Hercule de Kerkabon?Part Two The Nineteenth Century Brian Keith-Smith: A Germanic Hero Par Excellence? Richard Wagner in ParisAnne JUDGE and Solange LAMOTHE: Stendhal’s Style and the Expression of Passion and Heroism Elisabeth M. LILLIE: Heroes of the Mind: The Intellectual Elite in the Work of Ernest RenanJohn McCANN : Heroism and Villainy in Les Fleurs du MalHenri GODIN : Bel-Ami: postérité d’un héros Part Three The Twentieth Century Marie-Joséphine WHITAKER : Rimbaud, Claudel: la passion du voyageAlan GABBEY: The ‘Last Great Voice of Soldierly Heroism’ and the Philosophy of Rationalism: Péguy on DescartesMichael R. JONES: The Passion of Adam von Trott: the Heroic Stance of the ForeignMinister of the German ResistanceJohn H. GILLESPIE: Camus’s Passionate HeroesGerard M. MACKLIN: (Un)Sung Heroes in the Drama of Samuel BeckettAngela CHAMBERS: Prophets and Heroes: Ideology and Aesthetics in Aimé Césaire’s PoeticStanley BLACK: The Author as Hero in the New World Order: The Power of Fictionality in Goytisolo’s El sitio de los sitiosRichard YORK: Evelyn Waugh’s Farewell to HeroismPhilip TAYLOR: A Passion for Debate: French Communist Party Internal Opposition from Garaudy to FitermanPól Ó DOCHARTAIGH: Jewish Outsiders as Anti-Heroes in Jurek Becker’s NovelsIndex