Title Birth of a national icon : the literary avant-garde and the origins of the intellectual in France / Venita Datta

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) : illustrations Contents List of Illustrations ix -- Introduction Birth of a National Icon 1 -- Chapter 1 The Literary Avant-Garde at the Fin de Siecle 17 -- Chapter 2 The Generation of 1890 39 -- Chapter 3 Aristocrat or Proletarian?: Intellectuals and Elites in Fin-de-Siecle France 65 -- Chapter 4 The Jew as Intellectual, the Intellectual as Jew 85 -- Chapter 5 Intellectuals, Honor, and Manhood at the Fin de Siecle 117 -- Chapter 6 The Sword or the Pen: Competing Visions of the Hero at the Fin de Siecle 135 -- Chapter 7 Individualism and Solidarity: Organicist Discourse in the Dreyfus Affair 183 -- Conclusion From "Mystique" to "Politique" 205 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-305) and index Notes Print version record Subject Social change -- France Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- France Intellectuals -- Political activity -- France -- History -- 19th century HISTORY. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Intellectual life -- Political aspects Intellectuals -- Political activity Social change SUBJECT France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Political aspects Subject France Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 98039033 ISBN 0585089876 9780585089874

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