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The Dreyfus Affair and the rise of the French public intellectual /Tom Conner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781476615882
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DC354 .D749 2014
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Contents:
The criminal case against Alfred Dreyfus: his arrest, conviction, degradation, and the long struggle for rehabilitation -- Bernard Lazare and the beginnings of the affair -- The term intellectuel: from barbarisme to mass phenomenon -- Emile Zola: a hero in the making -- Zola's world: friends, foes, and leagues -- Watching from the sidelines: non-committed intellectuals during the Dreyfus Affair -- Intellectuals in the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair: the nationalist revival and the move right -- Conclusion: lessons of the Dreyfus Affair.
Subject: "With mini-portraits of the key players and a detailed chronology, this telling volume combines rigorous scholarship with cultural commentary to demonstrate the continued relevance of the example set by Dreyfus and his many supporters"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Setting the stage: the affair and fin-de-siècle France -- The criminal case against Alfred Dreyfus: his arrest, conviction, degradation, and the long struggle for rehabilitation -- Bernard Lazare and the beginnings of the affair -- The term intellectuel: from barbarisme to mass phenomenon -- Emile Zola: a hero in the making -- Zola's world: friends, foes, and leagues -- Watching from the sidelines: non-committed intellectuals during the Dreyfus Affair -- Intellectuals in the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair: the nationalist revival and the move right -- Conclusion: lessons of the Dreyfus Affair.

"With mini-portraits of the key players and a detailed chronology, this telling volume combines rigorous scholarship with cultural commentary to demonstrate the continued relevance of the example set by Dreyfus and his many supporters"--

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