Research Catalog

Title

Alexandre Dumas as a French symbol since 1870 : all for one and one for all in a global France / edited by Eric Martone.

Publication

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

Martone, Eric

Description

xxiii, 176 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"Nineteenth-century writer Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, has been a controversial part of the French patrimony, and faced various forms of racial prejudice in France because of his biracial ancestry and due to being a descendant of a slave. During the late nineteenth century, the rise of scientific racism and aggressive European imperialism resulted in worldviews supporting European superiority and equated "European" with being "white." Such developments complicated perceptions of Dumas as part of the French patrimony. French intellectuals and politicians from the late nineteenth-century onward created their own imaginative visions of what Dumas had represented in order to employ them ideologically to support or counter prevailing mainstream views of French history and identity. This collection traces the evolution of Dumas's legacy as a controversial symbol of France since 1870, as the nation has struggled to deal with colonialism and its aftermath, and increased diversity and globalization."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 > Appreciation > France
• Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
• Art appreciation
• France

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Ovations and omissions : a summary of Alexandre Dumas's oscillating literary legacy / Lynne Bermont -- Recasting Alexandre Dumas as a popular educator in France during the New iImperialism / Eric Martone -- French intellectual engagement with Alexandre Dumas in the Postwar Era and emergence of the Golden Age / Eric Martone -- From the literary myth to the Lieu de Memoire : Alexandre Dumas and French national identity(ies) / Roxane Petit-Rasselle -- Conquering nature : elements of early nineteenth-century ethnology in Alexandre Dumas's Georges / Hilary A. Heffley -- Alexandre Dumas : hidden within his Doppelganger paradigm / Virginia Payne Dow.

Call Number

Sc D 21-492

ISBN

• 9781527546004
• 1527546004

OCLC

1145429155

Title

Alexandre Dumas as a French symbol since 1870 : all for one and one for all in a global France / edited by Eric Martone.

Publisher

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Note

ED: MERCY COLLEGE. INFLUENCE OF BIRACIAL ANCESTRY ON DUMAS' RECEPTION.

Added Author

Martone, Eric, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc D 21-492