| Physical description |
1 online resource (v, 314 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-292) and index. |
| Contents |
Universal education, culture wars, and national identity -- The disciple, by Paul Bourget : a dangerous experiment in education -- The novel of national energy, by Maurice Barrès : Maurice Barrès 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 vérité -- Truth : true treason, or the rape of the Republic -- The erotics of politics. |
| Summary |
"In The Enemy Within, Gilbert D. Chaitin deepens our understanding of the nature and sources of culture wars during the French Third Republic. The psychological trauma caused by the Ferry educational reform laws of 1880-1882, which strove to create a new national identity based on secular morality rather than God-given commandments, pitted Catholics against proponents of lay education and gave rise to novels by Bourget, Barres, A. France, and Zola." "By deploying Lacanian concepts to understand the "erotics of politics" revealed in these novels, Chaitin examines the formation of national identity, offering a new intellectual history of the period and shedding light on the intimate relations among literature, education, philosophy, morality, and political order. The mechanisms described in The Enemy Within provide fresh insight into the affective structure of culture wars not only in the French Third Republic but elsewhere in the world today."--Jacket |
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French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Politics and literature -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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France -- History -- Third Republic, 1870-1940.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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History |
| ISBN |
9780814271735 (electronic bk.) |
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0814271731 (electronic bk.) |
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9780814202319 |
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0814202314 |
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