Matthew D'Auria

Shaping of French National Identity (eBook, ePUB)

Narrating the Nation's Past, 1715-1830

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Produktbeschreibung

The Shaping of French National Identity casts new light on the intellectual origins of the dominant and 'official' French nineteenth-century national narrative. Focussing on the historical debates taking place throughout the eighteenth century and during the Restoration, Matthew D'Auria evokes a time when the nation's origins were being questioned and discussed and when they acquired the meaning later enshrined in the official rhetoric of the Third Republic. He examines how French writers and scholars reshaped the myths, symbols, and memories of pre-modern communities. Engaging with the myth of 'our ancestors the Gauls' and its ideological triumph over the competing myth of 'our ancestors the Franks', this study explores the ways in which the struggle developed, and the values that the two discourses enshrined, the collective actors they portrayed, and the memories they evoked. D'Auria draws attention to the continuity between ethnic discourses and national narratives and to the competition between various groups in their claims to represent the nation and to define their past as the 'true' history of France.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009028356
• Artikelnr.: 62733881

Autorenporträt

Matthew D'Auria is a Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia. His main research interest lies in the relationship between images of the nation and discourses about Europe. Among his many publications on this topic are, with Mark Hewitson (eds.), Europe in Crisis: Intellectuals and the European Idea, 1917-1957 (2021) and, with Jan Vermeiren (eds.), Visions and Ideas of Europe During the First World War (2019). He is currently coediting, with Cathie Carmichael and Aviel Roshwald, The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Narrating the Nation: From the Nineteenth to the Eighteenth
Century; Part I: 1. Race, Blood, and Lineage: The Nobility's National
Narrative and the History of France; 2. History and Race: The Subject of
Boulainvilliers's National Narrative; 3. Debating the Nation's
History: From Royal(ist) to Ethnic Origins; Part II: 4. Thinking the
Nation's Character: At the Crossroads of Literature, Anthropology, and
History; 5. Moral and Physical Causes: Montesquieu's History of Nations; 6.
Discussing the Nation's History: Franks, Gauls, and the French Character;
Part III: 7. Classifying the Nation: The Past(s) of 'Social Classes' Before
and After the Revolution; 8. A Bourgeois National Narrative: On Augustin
Thierry's Réforme Historique; 9. Debating the Nation's Past(s): Giving the
Bourgeoisie its History; Conclusion.