Chateaubriand at the Crossways : A Character Study. Analyzing the Non-Literary Sources of Chateaubriand’S Opinions as Expressed in the Essai Sur Les Révolutions

for their ever ready interest and constructive criticism. To my wife I am indebted for compiling the index of names and a number of technical rectifications. I am especially glad to make acknowledgment to Professor Waldo H. Dunn, whose valuable emendations and reading of proofs have been a real labor of love calling for my very warmest thanks. H. P. S. PHILIPSE MANOR, N.Y. ACKNOWLEDGMENT PREFACE INTRODUCTION TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I. CHATEAUBRIAND’S SOJOURN IN ENGLAND 1792–1800 CHAPTER II. CHATEAUBRIAND AT WORK CHAPTER III. THE ESSAI IN THE LIGHT OF CRITICISM CHAPTER IV. CHATEAUBRIAND IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN THEORY CHAPTER V. THE TRUE SOURCES OF CHATEAUBRIAND'S SOCIAL AND MORAL CONCEPTIONS CHAPTER VI. THE CASE OF “CHATEAUBRIAND VOLTAIRIEN” AGAINST “CHATEAUBRIAND CHRFITIEN” CONCLUSION CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES A PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDIX INDEX OF NAMES

Presents an inquiry into the relation between society and government in Central America and how the changes in rule and ruling philosophy were introduced, accepted, and resisted. The study specifically examines the tradition of Amerindia as it was transformed by Hapsburg institutions and evolved into a tradition of Central America which came under attack in the enlightened age and fell to the attack of a nineteenth0century nativist movement.