Voltaire's Europe -- The European spirit of Germaine de Staël -- Victor Hugo's European utopia -- The shrunken Europe of Maurice Barrès -- Europe onscreen: Jean Renoir -- Institutionalizing the dream: Denis de Rougemont
Summary
Ousselin sets out to show that Europe is essentially a literary fiction and that the ongoing movement towards European unity cannot be understood without reference to the literary works that helped bring it about
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index
