Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood

Informationen zum Autor Christopher E. Forth is the Howard Professor of Humanities & Western Civilization at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Zarathustra in Paris: The Nietzsche Vogue in France, 1891–1918 (2001) and Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and the Body (2008). Klappentext Historian Christopher E. Forth shows how the rhetoric and images used during the Dreyfus Affair reflected French anxieties about masculinity and modernity, and also facilitated ongoing debates about the state of French manhood through the First World War. Zusammenfassung Finally! he examines the relation of the Dreyfus Affair to the "culture of forcethat marked French society during the prewar years! thus accounting for the rise of the youthful athlete as a more compelling manly ideal than the bookish and sedentary intellectual.

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• Authors: Christopher Forth, Christopher E. Forth, Christopher E. (Professor Forth
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.04.2004
• EAN: 9780801874338
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-7433-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Series: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science; Johns Hopkins University Studi; The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science; Johns Hopkins University Studi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories