de Lamartine / Hoffman Toussaint Louverture

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-85989-949-9
Verlag: University of Exeter Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 163 Seiten

Reihe: Exeter French Texts

This is a new critical edition of an unjustly forgotten drama by Alphonse de Lamartine, written in the early 1840s but only given its first, and last, performance in Paris in 1850. It draws a compelling image of Toussaint Louverture, the father of Haitian Independence. Lamartine proved something of a visionary by stressing his hero’s search for a coherent racial and national ideology, a theme which has become fundamental in Négritude and post-colonial literatures.



This edition is the first to provide a critical apparatus covering the history of the text, the political and social background against which it should be read, the reception of the work from the time of its original performance to today, and to offer notes on the historical figures included in the cast of characters, as well as a selection of variants, explanatory footnotes and an extensive bibliography.


This volume is in the series Textes littéraires/Exeter French Texts. The text, introduction and essential notes are all in French.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Lamartine, Alphonse

Hoffman, Léon-François

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Über Autor(innen)

Léon-François Hoffman is Professor of French at Princeton University.