Myth and Modernity
by Dan Edelstein, Bettina R. Lerner
170 pages· 2007· ISBN 9780300115161
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Editors’ Preface Dan Edelstein and Bettina Lerner Mythomania and Modernity Part I: From Nation to Republic Bettina Lerner Michelet, Mythologue Leon Sachs Teaching to the Choir: The Republican Schoolteacher and the Sanctity of Secularism Tyler Stovall The Myth of the Liberatory Republic and the Political Culture of Freedom in Imperial France Part II: Reading Revolution Marie-Hélène Huet The Face of Disaster Dan Edelstein The Modernization of Myth: From Balzac to Sorel Edward Berenson Fashoda, Dreyfus, and the Myth of Jean-Baptiste Marchand Part III: Mythical Selves Göran Blix Heroic Genesis in the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène Natacha Allet Myth and Legend in Antonin Artaud’s Theater Jean-Marie Apostolidès Hergé and the Myth of the Superchild Lawrence Kritzman De Gaulle’s Mémoires: Self-Portraiture and the Rhetoric of the Nation
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