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The Dreyfus Affair's Literary Politics

The Dreyfus Affair's Literary Politics

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Modern and Contemporary France

Literary CriticismFrench HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1802077987
ISBN13: 9781802077988
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Mar 1 2023
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

The Dreyfus Affair's Literary Politics offers a new interpretation of writers' political engagements in the crisis that ended the French nineteenth century, following the wrongful treason conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Émile Zola and three writers connected to him - Ferdinand Brunetière, Henry Céard and Saint-Georges de Bouhélier - drew on their affinities and antagonisms concerning Zola's naturalist fiction to shape their political discourse in the Dreyfus Affair. Zola and Bouhélier were Dreyfusard, Brunetière and Céard anti-Dreyfusard, yet in each case they transformed a vision of what literature should be into arguments about French national identity, the proper relationship between literary and political thought, and the tensions between individual rights and raison d'état.

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