Glenn H. Roe

The Passion of Charles Péguy: Literature, Modernity, and the Crisis of Historicism

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Produktbeschreibung

The Passion of Charles P¿y examines the life and ideas of Charles P¿y (1873-1914), offering an examination of early twentieth-century debates related to the role of literary studies in modern society and the formation of literary history as an academic discipline in both France and abroad.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780198718079
• ISBN-10: 0198718071
• Artikelnr.: 47868986

Autorenporträt

Glenn H. Roe is a Lecturer in Literary Studies and Digital Humanities at the Australian National University. He received his Ph.D. with honours in French literature from the University of Chicago before taking up a Mellon Fellowship in Digital Humanities at the University of Oxford. He has published and presented widely on modern French literary, intellectual, and book history, the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, and new computational approaches and digital methods for humanities scholarship.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Metaphysics of Modern History
2: The End of the Affair
3: Chronicler of Heroes and Saints
4: Against Lanson
5: A Philosophy of Hope
Conclusion
Bibliography