Birth of a national icon : the literary avant-garde and the origins of the intellectual in France / Venita Datta.
Material type: TextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585089876
- 9780585089874
- France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Political aspects
- Social change -- France
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- France
- Intellectuals -- Political activity -- France -- History -- 19th century
- HISTORY
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
- Intellectual life -- Political aspects
- Intellectuals -- Political activity
- Social change
- France
- 1800-1899
- 944.081/2/08631 21
- DC33.6 .D28 1999eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-305) and index.
List of Illustrations ix -- Introduction Birth of a National Icon 1 -- Chapter 1 The Literary Avant-Garde at the Fin de Siecle 17 -- Chapter 2 The Generation of 1890 39 -- Chapter 3 Aristocrat or Proletarian?: Intellectuals and Elites in Fin-de-Siecle France 65 -- Chapter 4 The Jew as Intellectual, the Intellectual as Jew 85 -- Chapter 5 Intellectuals, Honor, and Manhood at the Fin de Siecle 117 -- Chapter 6 The Sword or the Pen: Competing Visions of the Hero at the Fin de Siecle 135 -- Chapter 7 Individualism and Solidarity: Organicist Discourse in the Dreyfus Affair 183 -- Conclusion From "Mystique" to "Politique" 205.
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