1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459083803321

Autore

Mehlman Jeffrey

Titolo

Adventures in the French Trade : Fragments Toward a Life / / Jeffrey Mehlman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2020]

©2010

ISBN

0-8047-7507-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

Cultural Memory in the Present

Disciplina

944.0072/02

Soggetti

French studies specialists - United States

Critics - United States

Litterateurs - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Content -- Contents Preface -- 1. Beginning and End -- 2. Initiation: Bécheron -- 3. New York/Angoulême -- 4. Boston/Vichy -- 5. Hugo 2000: Fiction -- 6. Kandahar 2001: Fact -- teachers -- 7. Chiasmus -- 8. Derrida -- 9. Bellow in Boston -- 10. Antinomian Steiner -- 11. A Professor Retires -- 12. Genet in New Haven: Repercussions and Resonances -- 13. Mother Harvard -- 14. The Heart of the Matter: A Graduation Address -- 15. Louis Wolfson -- 16. Walter Benjamin -- 17. Afrancesado: Coda in Buenos Aires -- Acknowledgments -- Notes

Sommario/riassunto

This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar and critic of matters French than a series of differently angled fragments, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman's amour vache—his injured and occasionally injurious love—for France and the French. The reader will encounter masters of the art of reading in these pages, the exhilaration elicited by their achievements, and the unexpected (and occasionally unsettling) resonances those achievements have had in the author's life. With all its idiosyncrasies, Adventures in the French Trade depicts an intellectual generation in ways that will attract not only people who recall the heady



days of the rise and reign of French theory but also those who do not. This provocative book should be of interest to students of intellectual history, literary criticism, Jewish studies, the history of American academia, and the genre of the memoir itself.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971396103321

Autore

Bolt Christine

Titolo

Sisterhood questioned? : race, class and internationalism in the American and British women's movements, c.1880s-1970s / / Christine Bolt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-134-72565-5

0-203-68687-X

0-203-64591-X

1-280-05840-4

1-134-72566-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

305.42/0941

Soggetti

Feminism - United States

Feminism - Great Britain

Race

Social classes

Internationalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-251) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The setting, 1880s-1914 -- The impact of the First World War -- Feminist internationalism and nationalism between the wars -- Feminism and race, 1920s-1930s -- Feminists and class during the interwar years -- The Second World War: a turning point for women? -- The post-war women's movements: old themes and new emphases.

Sommario/riassunto

This readable and informative survey, including both new research and synthesis, provides the first close comparison of race, class and internationalism in the British and American women's movements



during this period. Sisterhood Questioned assesses the nature and impact of divisions in the twentieth century American and British women's movements.In this lucidly written study, Christine Bolt sheds new light on these differences, which flourished in an era of political reaction, economic insecurity, polarizing nationalism and resurgent anti-feminism. The author reveals how th