Institutions and power in nineteenth-century French literature and culture
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Institutions and power in nineteenth-century French literature and culture
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Rodopi, 2011
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Selected revised papers from a conference held at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Includes bibliographical references and index
Text in English and French
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Description
The French Revolution of 1789 altered the face of power and the institutions it inhabited in France, and the aftershocks of this seismic change rippled throughout the nineteenth century. With power changing hands between monarchy, empires and republics in quick succession, the nature of power, both personal and political, and institutions, both real and metaphorical, was constantly being redefined, argued over and fought for. This volume provides innovative analyses of nineteenth-century power relations in France across a series of interlinked spheres: artistic, literary, cultural, political, scientific and topographical. Its seventeen chapters trace the direct impact of politics and the shifting power of regimes on the creative arts, and explore power relations in a wide range of contexts including novels, sculpture, painting, education, religion, science, museums and exhibitions across a wide geographical area from Paris to the provinces, southern France and the colonies. The contributors, all experts in their fields, assess the evolving relationship between institutions and power in nineteenth-century France, exploring how the nation debates its past, negotiates its present and, as the foundation of the Third Republic ushers in a period of relative stability, sets about creating its common future.
Table of Contents
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David Evans and Kate Griffiths: Introduction
Political Power: Legacies and Myths
Nicole Mozet: Balzac, Theoricien du pouvoir absolu et romancier du chaos post-revolutionnaire
Damian Catani: The French Revolution: Historical Necessity or Historical Evil? Terror and Slavery in Hugo's Quatrevingt-treize and Confiant's L'Archet du colonel
Jean-Marie Seillan: Institutions et pouvoirs occultes: Huysmans et l'imaginaire conspirationniste
Janice Best: Les Hommes de bronze de la Troisieme Republique: Commemoration ou oubli de l'histoire?
Power and Space
Elisabeth Gerwin: Power in the City: Balzac's Flaneur in La Fille aux yeux d'or
Claire I.R. O'Mahony: The Colony Within? Poets and the Politics of Particularism in Toulouse's Capitole
Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini: Le Pouvoir de la representation: Ecriture pittoresque et construction de la nation dans la serie provinciale des Francais peints par eux-memes
Leonard R. Koos: Razzia in Stone: Building Colonial Algiers, 1830-1900
Institutions and Knowledge
Francesco Manzini: Doctors, Priests, Magistrates: Stendhal, Cabanis and the Power of Medical Practitioners
Rosemary Lloyd: The Crocodiles of Caen and the Molluscs of the Museum: Rhetoric, Science, and Power in Nineteenth-Century France
Mary Orr: Education, Education, Education: The Space of the Museum as Showcase for Thinking its Public
Scott A. Gavorsky: L'Etat comme proprietaire? Schools as Property in Nineteenth-Century France
Writing Art History: Institutions and Alternative Authorities
Juliet Simpson: Whose History? Art, History and the Nation State in Early Third Republic France
L. Cassandra Hamrick: Beyond Institutions: In Search of le souffle moderne in Gautier's Salon de 1844
Gilles Bonnet: Le Contre-pouvoir critique: Huysmans, vers une fiction d'art
Sonya Stephens: Auguste Rodin, or the Institutionalization of the Self as Artist
Notes on contributors
Index
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