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