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.
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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?
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?
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