Publisher Description

Alan Spitzer approaches the history of the French Restoration by examining the experience of a particular age group born between 1792 and 1803: the generation of 1820. A predominantly male, middle-class, educated minority of this group was perceived as representing all that was most promising and specifically youthful in the period. Their response to the pressures of transition was expressed in the fractious behavior of the youth of the schools," and in voluntary associations, masonic lodges, conspiratorial cells, and influential journals, which depended on a dense network of personal relationships. Professor Spitzer portrays these connections in a set of sociograms using new techniques for the visual representation of social networks. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Preface, pg. xiii*CHAPTER 1. Introduction: The Generation as a Social Network, pg. 1*CHAPTER 2. Youth as the Age of Dissent, pg. 35*CHAPTER 3. Victor Cousin: The Professor as Guru, pg. 71*CHAPTER 4. The Globe: Flagship for a Generation, pg. 97*CHAPTER 5. The Muse Francaise, the Literary Orbit of Victor Hugo, and the Generational Fission of the Romantics, pg. 129*CHAPTER 6. The Producteur and the Search for a "New General Doctrine", pg. 145*CHAPTER 7. Shared Assumptions and a Common Temper of Mind, pg. 171*CHAPTER 8. A Cohort of Laureats de Concours, pg. 206*CHAPTER 9. An Excess of Educated Men?, pg. 225*CHAPTER 10. Lost Illusions: Class and Generation Reconsidered, pg. 259*CHAPTER 11. A Conclusion and an Epilogue, pg. 267*Appendix A. 183 Members of the "Generation of 1820" as They Were Entered on a Two-Dimensional Matrix, pg. 283*Appendix B. A Sociogram of the Generation Network, pg. 287*Bibliography, pg. 299*Index, pg. 327

Long Description

Alan Spitzer approaches the history of the French Restoration by examining the experience of a particular age group born between 1792 and 1803: the generation of 1820. A predominantly male, middle-class, educated minority of this group was perceived as representing all that was most promising and specifically youthful in the period. Their response to the pressures of transition was expressed in the fractious behavior of the youth of the schools," and in voluntary associations, masonic lodges, conspiratorial cells, and influential journals, which depended on a dense network of personal relationships. Professor Spitzer portrays these connections in a set of sociograms using new techniques for the visual representation of social networks. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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