{"id":1804,"date":"2019-04-02T17:40:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T21:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?page_id=1804"},"modified":"2019-04-08T23:44:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T03:44:58","slug":"alexis-de-tocqueville-memoirs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/alexis-de-tocqueville-memoirs\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis de Tocqueville: Memoirs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Memoirs<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It seems to me that my true worth is above all in works of the mind; that I am worth more in thought than in action; and that, <\/i>if there remains anything of me in this world, it will be much more the trace of what I have written than the recollection of what I will have done.<\/i><\/p>\n

Alexis de Tocqueville to Louis de Kergorlay (Dec. 15, 1850), Selected Letters on Politics and Society 252, 253 (Roger Boesche ed., James Toupin & Roger Boesche trans., University of California Press 1985).<\/p>\n

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Bass, Thomas Alden, Fiction and History: Essays on the Novels of Flaubert, Garcia Marquez, Coover, and Pynchon<\/u> (Dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1980).  Chapter two contains an analysis of Tocqueville\u2019s Souvenirs<\/u>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Baszkiewicz, Jan, Wst\u0119p<\/em> [Preface], in Alexis de Tocqueville, Wspomnienia <\/u>[Recollections] 3-42 (Warsaw: 1987) (Wroclaw 1987)<\/p>\n

Braudel, Fernand, Alexis de Tocqueville’s Recollections<\/u><\/em>, 26(3) Society<\/u> 67-72 (March 1989).<\/p>\n

Douthwaite, Julia V., The Uses of History in Tocqueville\u2019s Souvenirs<\/u> and Flaubert\u2019s L\u2019education sentimentale<\/u><\/em> 4 RLA: Romance Languages Annual<\/u> 40-46 (1992).<\/p>\n

Franck, Jacques, Les Souvenirs<\/u> d\u2019Alexis de Tocqueville,<\/em> 11 Revue G<\/u>\u00e9n\u00e9rale Belge<\/u> 123-126 (1964).<\/p>\n

Mansfield, Harvey, A New Kind of Liberalism: Tocqueville\u2019s \u201cRecollections\u201d,<\/em> 28(7) New Criterion<\/u> 4-9 (March 2010). Excerpted from Mansfield\u2019s Alexis de Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction<\/u>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Muller, James W., Politics and Philosophy in Tocqueville’s Souvenirs<\/u><\/em>, 10(1) Intercollegiate Review<\/u> 33-44 (1975).<\/p>\n

Murciaux, Christian, Au vent de la Revolution: Les Souvenirs<\/u> d’Alexis de Tocqueville<\/em>, Nouvelles Litt\u00e9raires<\/u>, September 1, 1966, at 7.<\/p>\n

Shiner, Larry E., The Secret Mirror: Literary Form and History in Tocqueville’s Recollections<\/em><\/u> (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988).<\/p>\n

Shiner, Larry E., Writing and political carnival in Tocqueville’s Recollections<\/u><\/em>, 25(1) History and Theory<\/u> 17-33 (1986).<\/p>\n

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