France from 1851 to the Present Universalism in Crisis

by Célestin, Roger; DalMolin, Eliane

• ISBN13: 9780312295240
• ISBN10: 0312295243
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This study is a cultural history of France from a period of dominant universalism in the mid-19th Century, to the post-modern era, when the "French exception" had entered a period of crisis.

Author Biography

Roger Célestin is Professor of French and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of From Cannibals to Radicals: Figures and Limits of Exoticism and co-editor of Beyond French Feminisms. He is co-founder and co-editor of Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: SITES.
Eliane DalMolin is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Cutting the Body: Representing Woman in Baudelaire’s Poetry, Truffaut’s Cinema, and Freud’s Psychoanalysis and co-editor of Beyond French Feminisms. She is co-founder and co-editor of Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: SITES.

Table of Contents

1851-1944

France at Mid-Century

A Changing World: The Second Empire and Beyond

Scandals and the New in the Republic

War and Peace

Socialism, Fascism and War

1945-2006

From the Liberation Into the Fifties

(De)Colonization

Modernization, Mass Culture, May 68, and Life After de Gaulle

The Socialist Republic

The Republic in the Third Millennium

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