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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Enlightenment Genius
Chapter 1: The Eighteenth Century: Mimesis and Effect
Chapter 2: Genius Obscured: Diderot
Part II: Nineteenth-Century Genius: The Idiom of the Age
Chapter 3: Language, Religion, Nation
Chapter 4: Individual versus Collective Genius
Chapter 5: The Romantic Poet and the Brotherhood of Genius
Chapter 6: Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, and the Dynasty of Genius
Part III: Genius in the Clinic
Chapter 7: Genius under Observation: Lélut
Chapter 8: Genius, Neurosis, and Family Trees: Moreau de Tours
Chapter 9: Genius Restored to Health
Part IV: Failure, Femininity, and the Realist Novel
Chapter 10: A Novel of Female Genius: Mme de Staël’s Corinne
Chapter 11: Balzac’s Louis Lambert: Genius and the Feminine Mediator
Chapter 12: Creativity and Procreation in Zola’s L’Œuvre
Part V: Precocity and Child Prodigies
Chapter 13: Exemplarity and Performance in Literature for Children
Chapter 14: Alfred Binet and the Measurement of Intelligence
Chapter 15: Minou Drouet: The Prodigy under Suspicion
Part VI: Genius in Theory
Chapter 16: Cultural Critique and the End of Genius: Barthes, Sartre
Chapter 17: The Return of Genius: Mad Poets
Chapter 18: Julia Kristeva and Female Genius
Chapter 19: Derrida, Cixous, and the Impostor
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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