Historical and critical essays

Henri Peyre discusses the recent trends in historical literature in France and the great role historians played in formulating and spreading the influentual myths of race, nation, and revolution

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Peyre, Henri, 1901-, Peyre, Henri, 1901-1988
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1968
[Lincoln, [University of Nebraska Press], 1968]
[Lincoln] : [1968]
[Lincoln] : [1968]
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Table of Contents:
  • History and literature in contemporary France
  • Three nineteenth-century myths: race, nation, revolution
  • The influence of eighteenth-century ideas on the French Revolution
  • Napoleon: devil, poet, saint
  • What Greece means to modern France
  • English literature seen through French eyes
  • Shakespeare's women, a French view
  • Religion and literary scholarship in France
  • Romantic poetry and rhetoric
  • Romanticism and French literature today: Le mort vivant
  • The responsibility of mass media
  • Excellence and leadership: has Western Europe any lessons for us?
  • The crisis of modern man as seen by André Malraux and Albert Camus
  • History and literature in contemporary France
  • Three nineteenth-century myths: race, nation, revolution
  • The influence of eighteenth-century ideas on the French Revolution
  • Napoleon: devil, poet, saint
  • What Greece means to modern France
  • English literature seen through French eyes
  • Shakespeare's women, a French view
  • Religion and literary scholarship in France
  • Romantic poetry and rhetoric
  • Romanticism and French literature today: Le mort vivant
  • The responsibility of mass media
  • Excellence and leadership: has Western Europe any lessons for us?--The crisis of modern man as seen by André Malraux and Albert Camus
  • History and literature in contemporary France
  • Three nineteenth-century myths: race, nation, revolution
  • The influence of eighteenth-century ideas on the French Revolution
  • Napoleon: devil, poet, saint
  • What Greece means to modern France
  • English literature seen through French eyes
  • Shakespeare's women, a French view
  • Religion and literary scholarship in France
  • Romantic poetry and rhetoric
  • Romanticism and French literature today: Le mort vivant
  • The responsibility of mass media
  • Excellence and leadership: has Western Europe any lessons for us?--The crisis of modern man as seen by André Malraux and Albert Camus