Venita Datta

Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siècle France

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Produktbeschreibung

Venita Datta examines representations of fictional and real heroes in the boulevard theater and mass press during the fin de si cle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9780521195959
• ISBN-10: 0521195950
• Artikelnr.: 32731961

Autorenporträt

Venita Datta, Professor of French at Wellesley College, where she has taught since 1991, is a specialist of French cultural and intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of Birth of a National Icon (1999) and has published articles in various journals, including French Historical Studies, the Journal of Contemporary History, Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques, French Cultural Studies and CLIO: Histoire, Femmes et Société. Professor Datta is a recipient of the Chateaubriand Fellowship, awarded by the French government.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the fin-de-siècle cult of heroes
1. Gender, class, and national identity: images of heroism in the Bazar de la Charité fire of 1897
2. Cyrano: a hero for the fin de siècle?
3. 'L'appel au soldat': visions of the Napoleonic legend in popular culture
4. On the boulevards: representations of Joan of Arc in the popular theater
5. Opium, gambling, and the demimondaine: the Ullmo spy case of 1907-1908
Conclusion: from one war to the next: the end of heroes?