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The Shaping of French National Identity: New Studies in European History

Autor Matthew D'Auria
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 ian 2024
Casts new light on the intellectual origins of the 'official' French nineteenth-century national narrative by examining how historians and philosophers conceived of the French past from the early eighteenth century to the Restoration, reshaping the myths, symbols, and memories of pre-modern communities.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107571846
ISBN-10: 1107571847
Pagini: 487
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Seria New Studies in European History


Cuprins

Introduction. Narrating the Nation: From the Nineteenth to the Eighteenth Century; Part I: 1. Race, Blood, and Lineage: The Nobility's National Narrative and the History of France; 2. History and Race: The Subject of Boulainvilliers's National Narrative; 3. Debating the Nation's History: From Royal(ist) to Ethnic Origins; Part II: 4. Thinking the Nation's Character: At the Crossroads of Literature, Anthropology, and History; 5. Moral and Physical Causes: Montesquieu's History of Nations; 6. Discussing the Nation's History: Franks, Gauls, and the French Character; Part III: 7. Classifying the Nation: The Past(s) of 'Social Classes' Before and After the Revolution; 8. A Bourgeois National Narrative: On Augustin Thierry's Réforme Historique; 9. Debating the Nation's Past(s): Giving the Bourgeoisie its History; Conclusion.

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'Matthew D'Auria has written an important contribution to our understanding of French nationalism and French identity. His lucid and engaging book shows how intellectual debates about the origins of France resulted in the production of a powerful narrative about the national past that has ever since shaped the way the French understand themselves.' David A. Bell, Princeton University
'D'Auria masterfully charts a vast corpus of French intellectual history. Over more than a turbulent century, narratives and self-characterizations emerged and competed in which France remade its past and the remade past served to remake France. This elegant tour de force will be a lasting benchmark in the history of national identity-formation.' Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam
'Although the shaping of French national has attracted its share of scholarly attention, it is safe to say that no one has ever surveyed this particular terrain - the grand narratives of national development, in the crucial decades before and after the French Revolution - with such insight and illumination. Matthew D'Auria's success owes much both to the architectural skill with which he has constructed his overarching narrative, moving from Boulainvilliers through Montesquieu to Thierry, across three master-themes, race, character and class; but also to his clear and crisp writing. He offers an unignorable argument that is also a very great pleasure to read.' Kent Wright, Arizona State University
'Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.' D. A. Harvey, Choice
'The Shaping of French National Identity thus sheds light on a chapter of intellectual history never before investigated with such thoroughness, that of the battles between competing visions of national identity that coexisted over the course of the long eighteenth century; the focus of is the respective contributions of Gauls, Romans and Franks in French history, and the reflection on the role of the king, the nobles, and the rest of the population in creating the national imaginary… The volume unveils possible alternative images to that established in the second half of the nineteenth century and illuminates the paths and reasons for the affirmation of the hegemonic narrative. It is an approach to the question of national identity that can be innovative even within a vast and prestigious bibliography. Focusing on the idea of 'national narrative', this approach corrects some of the assumptions implicit in the so-called 'modernist' approaches.' Studi Francesi

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