Sick Heroes

French Society and Literature in the Romantic Age 1750-1850

by Allan H. Pasco

Book cover: Sick Heroes

Extent: 272 pages

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Subjects: Anthropology, Literary Studies, Social Sciences 

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 1997)

ISBN: 9780859895507

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $37.00

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Hardback (Published)

(September 1997)

ISBN: 9780859895491

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $112.00

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Sick Heroes examines the cultural practices that created those remarkably offensive, though strangely appealing, romantic heroes that appeared in European and especially in French literature in the latter half of the eighteenth century.


Sick Heroes examines the cultural practices that created those remarkably offensive, though strangely appealing, romantic heroes that appeared in European and especially in French literature in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Romanticism has long been considered a literary movement, but Pasco broadens its scope and suggests that it was a cultural reality born of widespread social factors and sustained by a mass market for novels, poems and plays that popularized attitudes and behaviour.

  • By (author) Allan H Pasco