Description
This critical edition presents the work of Benjamin Constant, author, religious historian and political thinker, in all its uniqueness and diversity. It includes the author's voluminous correspondence. The Collected Works comprise two series, the first containing his works, the second his correspondence. Both series are arranged chronologically. Each volume includes chronological surveys, surveys, a bibliography and an index.
This volume contains 339 letters between 1806 and 1807. In this period, Constant edites Adolphe and writes both the tragedy Wallstein and his essay Principes de politique. His emotional life, particularly the resumption of his relationship to Charlotte von Hardenberg, features prominently in the correspondence, yet neither his family in Lausanne nor his friends in Paris and elsewhere are neglected. The correspondence also describes in detail important events of these years in which the Napoleonic Era reached its high point.
Paul Delbouille, Université de Liège, Belgien; Adrianne Tooke, University of Oxford, UK; Martine Willems,Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, Belgien.
