A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
CHAPTER IX
THE FRENCH NOVEL IN 1850 343
The peculiarity of the moment--A political nadir--And almost a literary zenith--The performance of the time in novel--The _personnel_--The kinds: the historical novel--Appearance of new classes: the historical--Other kinds and classes--The Novel of Romanticism generally--The "ordinary"--Discussion on a point of general novel criticism.