Research Catalog

Title

The national habitus : ways of feeling French, 1789-1870 / Marie-Pierre Le Hir.

Author

Le Hir, Marie-Pierre

Publication

• Berlin : De Gruyter, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Description

ix, 340 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Drawing from the works of Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu, this book retrieves conceptions of national identity and ways of feeling French that competed against each other in the nineteenth century. By distinguishing between two groups of French writers, three who experienced the 1789 revolution as adults (de Gouges, de Chateaubriand, de Staél) and three who did not (Stendhal, Mérimée, Sand), it captures evolving understandings of the nation, as well as thoughts and emotions associated with national belonging. Culture and conflict unavoidably go together. The very idea of culture is marked by the notion of difference and creative, i.e. conflictual, interaction that inevitably support the key themes of the study of culture such as identity and diversity, memory and trauma, the translation of cultures and globalization, dislocation and emplacement, mediation and exclusion. This series publishes theoretically informed original scholarship from the fields of literary and cultural studies as well as media, visual and him studies, fostering a plural disciplinary dialogue on the multiple ways in which conflict supports and constrains the production of meaning in modernity, how the representation of conflict works, how it relates to the past and projects the present and how it frames scholarship within the humanities.

Series Statement

Culture & conflict, 2194-7104 ; volume 4

Uniform Title

Culture & conflict ; Bd. 4.

Subject

• National characteristics, French
• Manners and customs
• Schriftsteller
• Nationalbewusstsein
• France > Social life and customs
• France

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-327) and indexes.

Contents

Introduction -- Part I. The Revolutionary Field -- Chapter I. Olympe de Gouges's Revolutionary Patriotism -- 1.1. Vive le roi! (1788-1791) -- 1.1.1. Bourgeois values vs. aristocratic ethos -- 1.1.2. Royal patriotism -- 1.1.3. Manifestations of the aristocratic code of conduct -- 1.1.4. Attitudes towards foreigners -- 1.1.5. The French Revolution as a breakdown of civility -- 1.1.6. Constructing the nation: the cult of great men -- 1.2. Vive la France! (1792-93) -- 1.2.1. From loving the king to loving the nation -- 1.2.2. "L'esprit français" -- 1.2.3. War: the catalyst of national sentiment -- Conclusion -- Chapter II. Identity Lost and Found: Chateaubriand's Culturalist Nationalism -- 2.1. The Historical, Political, and Moral Essay on Revolutions -- 2.1.1. The aristocratic sense of self and national identity -- 2.1.2. Christianity: the foundation of French identity -- 2.1.3. Against the Enlightenment and the French Revolution -- 2.2. The Genius of Christianity, or The Beauties of the Christian Religion -- 2.2.1. Chateaubriand's case for Christianity's modernity -- 2.2.2. Chateaubriand's politics -- 2.2.3. Grounding identity in faith and soil -- Conclusion -- Chapter III. Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Germaine de Staël's Works -- 3.1. Delphine, an ambiguous critique of the aristocratic ethos -- 3.1.1. The aristocratic ethos of the Parisian salon -- 3.1.2. Bourgeois life in the countryside -- 3.1.3. Exile and war -- 3.1.4. Delphine's reception -- 3.2. Divided allegiance: cosmopolitanism and nationalism in Corinne, or Italy -- 3.2.1. Cosmopolitanism and the national character -- 3.2.2. The national habitus in Corinne -- 3.2.3. Corinne's reception -- Conclusion -- Part II. The Post-Revolutionary Field -- Chapter IV. Through Stendhal's Eyes: The National Habitus in the Making -- 4.1. The French character in Chronicles for England -- 4.1.1. Of Frenchmen, old and new -- 4.1.2. Assessing change in Restoration France -- 4.2. Identity nationalization as inescapable universal process -- 4.2.1. On becoming 'British' -- 4.2.2. Obstacles to real democracy -- Conclusion -- Chapter V. Looking Back: National Past and Culture in Mérimée -- 5.1. Mérimée and the invention of the national patrimony -- 5.2. A history of violence and superstition -- 5.2.1. Violence and religion in A Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX -- 5.2.2. Taming the superstitious mind: the fantastic tales -- 5.3. Colombo: savage past and modernity -- 5.4. State and religion in The Mormons -- Conclusion -- Chapter VI. National Belonging in George Sand's Novels -- 6.1. George Sand and the Republic -- 6.1.1. Republican patriotism -- 6.1.2. George Sand's project of national unity -- 6.2. Patriotism and nationalism at times of war -- 6.2.1. National identity in Nanon -- 6.2.2. Nationalism in Francia -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Primary texts -- Secondary sources -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.

Call Number

JFE 16-3538

ISBN

• 3110362910
• 9783110362916
• 3110363062
• 9783110363067
• 3110363070
• 9783110363074
• 3110391538
• 9783110391534
• 9783110363067 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014415772

OCLC

881399563

Author

Le Hir, Marie-Pierre, author.

Title

The national habitus : ways of feeling French, 1789-1870 / Marie-Pierre Le Hir.

Publisher

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2014]

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Culture & conflict, 2194-7104 ; volume 4

Culture & conflict ; Bd. 4.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-327) and indexes.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-3538