The Dreyfus Affair and the Rise of the French Public Intellectual
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Jefferson, NC
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780786478620
Copyright date: 2014
Description: "With mini-portraits of the key players and a detailed chronology, this telling volume combines rigorous scholarship with cultural commentary to demonstrate the continued relevance of the example set by Dreyfus and his many supporters"--
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Dramatis personae; title: Chronology of the Dreyfus Affair; title: Introduction; title: Setting the stage: the affair and fin-de-siècle France; title: The criminal case against Alfred Dreyfus: his arrest, conviction, degradation, and the long struggle for rehabilitation; title: Bernard Lazare and the beginnings of the affair; title: The term intellectuel: from barbarisme to mass phenomenon; title: Emile Zola: a hero in the making; title: Zola's world: friends, foes, and leagues; title: Watching from the sidelines: non-committed intellectuals during the Dreyfus Affair; title: Intellectuals in the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair: the nationalist revival and the move right; title: Conclusion: Lessons of the Dreyfus Affair; title: Appendix: Visiting Devil's Island