Joel Barlow, de Redding (1754) à Zarnowiec (1812) : rêves cosmopolitiques et cauchemars tyranniques d'un Américain de bonne volonté
Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: This article belongs to the new field of biography as history. Far from restricting itself to the narrative account of Joel Barlow’s life and works, it tries to capture the various facets of this man with all the contradictions which were inherent in his character and fate, and which he shared with his Enlightenment contemporaries. As happened with a large number of great political actors in the history of mankind, Barlow’s background, as well as his rather mediocre “genius”, raises the essential question of how and why such an ordinary man achieved so singular a role in the extraordinary history of his time, to the point of finding himself right in the eye of the Napoleonic cyclone which eventually killed him.
Author: Élise Marienstras
Institution: Université Paris Diderot
Language: French
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1790847458