Definition of Stendhal

1. Noun. French writer whose novels were the first to feature psychological analysis of the character (1783-1842).

Exact synonyms: Marie Henri Beyle
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stendhal

Steinway
Stelios
Stella
Stellar's sea eagle
Stellaria
Stellaria holostea
Stellaria media
Steller
Steller's sea cow
Steller's sea lion
Steller sea lion
Stellite
Sten
Sten gun
Sten guns
Stendhal (current term)
Stendhalian
Stengel
Stennian
Stenocarpus
Stenocarpus salignus
Stenocarpus sinuatus
Stenochlaena
Stenopelmatidae
Stenopelmatus
Stenopelmatus fuscus
Stenopterygius quadrisicissus
Stenotaphrum
Stenotaphrum secundatum
Stenotomus

Literary usage of Stendhal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"No two writers more remote from George Sand could well be imagined than Stendhal and Merime'e, whom we may group together for purposes of study, ..."

2. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1858)
"THE literary career of Henri Beyle, who wrote under the pseudonyms of M. de Stendhal, deserves to be commemorated, if only as a curious illustration of the ..."

3. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1858)
"Precedes d'une Notice sur De Stendhal, par MB COLOMB. 1 vol. 3. ... THE literary career of Henri Beyle, who wrote under the pseudonyme of M. de Stendhal, ..."

4. Selected Essays by Abraham Hayward (1879)
"THE literary career of Henri Beyle, who wrote unda the pseudonyme of De Stendhal, deserves to be commemorated, if only as a curious illustration of the ..."

5. Modern French Literature by Benjamin Willis Wells (1896)
"Men who shrank from these ethics of the dust saw in Stendhal the possibility of a psychological naturalism, and for a time Bourget and his most brilliant ..."

6. Modern French Literature by Benjamin Willis Wells (1896)
"Men who shrank from these ethics of the dust saw in Stendhal the possibility of a psychological naturalism, and for a time Bourget and his most brilliant ..."

7. Modern French Literature by Benjamin Willis Wells (1909)
"I Men who shrank from these ethics of the dust saw in Stendhal the possibility of a psychological naturalism, and for a time Bourget and his most brilliant ..."

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