Alexandre Dumas: The King of Romance - Hardcover

Hemmings, F. W. J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684163918 ISBN 13: 9780684163918

Publisher: Encore Editions, 1980

Synopsis

Dumas's memoirs and surviving correspondence form the core of this comprehensive biography of the French Romantic writer whose adventures and exploits matched those of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo

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About the Author

Frederick William John Hemmings (1920-1997) was born in Southampton. Hemmings did war service decrypting German codes in the Army Intelligence Corps but in 1946 he returned to academic life in Oxford, completing his DPhil in 1949, a groundbreaking study that was published the following year by Oxford University Press, The Russian Novel in France 1884-1914. Hemmings really made his mark as a pioneer of Zola studies and is known as the foremost Zola critic in the English-speaking world. Further studies on Zola and Stendhal unfailingly appeared in later years, as did books on two other major 19th-century French writers: The King of Romance: A Portrait of Alexandre Dumas (1979) and Baudelaire the Damned (1982). This project of Balzacian and Zolaesque proportions was realized all the more remarkably during a busy nine-year term of office as head of the French department at Leicester University. Hemmings was a hugely respected literary scholar and Professor of French Literature, Leicester University 1963-85; twice married (one son, one daughter); died Leicester 9 May 1997.

Edition details

• Publisher: Encore Editions
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684163918
• ISBN 13: 9780684163918
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 231