Louis Cazamian

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Louis François Cazamian (born April 2, 1877 in Saint-Denis on the island of Réunion , † September 5, 1965 in Paris ) was a French English scholar and author.

Cazamian studied at the École Normale Superieure and received a grant from the Thiers Foundation. He was maitre de conferences in Bordeaux and Lyon and from 1925 to 1945 professor of English and English cultural history at the Sorbonne . He was an honorary doctor from Oxford , Saint Andrews and Durham Universities .

He wrote books on Britain for the French. He is known as a co-author with Émile Legouis of an English literary history that first appeared in 1924. He also wrote about the social novel in England (subject of his dissertation from 1903), especially with Charles Dickens , and about English humor (and that in the works of Shakespeare ) and psychology and literature in general. He translated, among others, William Blake , William Wordsworth , George Meredith (poems, with his wife Madeleine Cazamian) and Robert Browning into French.

He was married to the English scholar Madeleine Cazamian (nee Clédat) (marriage 1908), author of Le roman et les idées en angeleterre (3 volumes, 1923–1955) and translator of William Butler Yeats , Percy Bysshe Shelley and Meredith.

literature

  • CC Lorenz Les professeurs de la faculté des lettres en Paris , CNRS 1986, Volume 2, pp. 51-53
  • Entry in Jean-Claude Polet (editor) Patrimonie litteraire européen , Volume 12, De Boeck Université 2000

Fonts

  • with Émile Legouis: A History of English Literature , 1927, the second volume from him, dealing with the period from 1660, was published in an edited edition by Dent in London in 1971
  • Le Roman Social en Angleterre 1830–1850 , Paris, Société nouvelle de librairie et d'édition, 1904, reprinted New York 1967 (his dissertation)
    • English translation Social novel in England 1830-1850. Dickens, Disraeli, Mrs. Gaskell, Kingsley , London, Boston, Routledge and Kegan 1973
  • The Development of English Humor , 2 volumes, Macmillan 1930, Duke University Press 1952
  • L´Humour de Shakespeare , Paris, Aubier 1945
  • Symbolism et poésie; l'exemple anglais , Neuchâtel, Éditions de la Baconnière 1947
  • Criticism in the Making , New York, Macmillan 1929, reprinted in Folcroft 1977
  • L'Angleterre moderne, son évolution , Paris, Flammarion 1911
  • La Grande-Bretagne et la Guerre , Paris, Flammarion 1917
  • Modern England , London, Dent 1912
  • Etudes de psychologie litteraire , 1913
  • L´evolution psychologique et la litterature en angleterre , 1920
  • Andrew Lang and the Maid of France , Oxford University Press 1931 (Andrew Lang Lecture at St. Andrews University 1931)
  • Carlyle , Paris 1913 (English translation Macmillan 1932)
  • Grande Bretagne , Paris, H. Didier 1934
  • La poésie romantique anglaise , 1939
  • Published by Anthologie de la poésie anglaise , Paris 1947
  • Essais en deux langues , Paris, Didier 1938
  • Ce qu'il faut connaître de l'âme anglaise , Paris 1927
  • History of French Literature , Goldmann 1963

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Information on Louis Cazamian in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .