Chaitin, Gilbert D.

The Enemy Within Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic / Gilbert D. Chaitin. - 1 online resource (v, 314 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-292) and index.

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.

Open Access

9780814271735 0814271731




Politics and literature--History--France--19th century.
French fiction--History and criticism.--19th century


France--History--Third Republic, 1870-1940.


Electronic books.

PQ653 / .C43 2009

843/.80935844081