The Enemy Within : Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic / / Gilbert D. Chaitin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524662203321
• Autore: Chaitin Gilbert D
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2009; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (v, 314 p.)
• Disciplina: 843/.80935844081
• Soggetti: Politics and literature - France - History - 19th century; French fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Electronic books.; France History Third Republic, 1870-1940
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-292) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Universal education, culture wars, and national identity -- The disciple, by Paul Bourget : a dangerous experiment in education -- The novel of national energy, by Maurice Barres : Maurice Barres proto-fascist? -- The novel of national energy : nationalism, identity, and the transferential novel -- Contemporary history, by Anatole France : the memory of the present -- Contemporary history : filling the emptiness within -- Truth, by Émile Zola : Zola's daymare and the truth of verite -- Truth : true treason, or the rape of the Republic -- The erotics of politics.