Selected from papers given at the first annual conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviemistes, the nineteen essays in this volume contribute diversely towards a revision and a reconceptualisation of nineteenth-century France. Many adopt interdisciplinary methodologies attentive to the interplay between literature, history, art, popular and high culture, politics and science. The wide-ranging discussion of issues such as identity, alterity, commemoration, cultural history, tensions between centre and margins, mimesis and representation, suggest that no simplistic snapshot of this century is possible. Opening with a section on the modernity of the nineteenth century, the volume continues with sections on cultural transfer, war, readings and re-readings, and concludes with two essays on questions of identity. The critical reappraisals put forward here offer us various insights into directions in which nineteenth-century French studies are heading at the turn of another new century.
| ISBN: | 9783039101405 |
| Publication date: | 25th February 2004 |
| Author: | Nigel Harkness |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissen |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 330 pages |
| Series: | French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |
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Language: reference and general Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 History and Archaeology |