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The "I" of history : self-fashioning and national consciousness in Jules Michelet / by Vivian Kogan.
Van Pelt Library DC36.98.M5 K64 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kogan, Vivian.
- Series:
- North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 286.
- North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 286
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Michelet, Jules, 1798-1874.
- Michelet, Jules.
- Historians--France--Biography.
- Historians.
- France.
- France--Historiography.
- Historiography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 322 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : U.N.C. Department of Romance Languages : Distributed by University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- Long before Charles de Gaulle, Michelet asserted that he "was" France. His self-representation as the "I" of the nation and the embodiment of history ("moi-histoire") takes form as a rhetorical personification that shapes the historian's writing as it informs his project to use history to construct the nation. Offering a new multidisciplinary perspective, Kogan both exposes Michelet's vision of France, his grand narrative, and demystifies that narrative in the analysis of Michelet's final text, "History of the Nineteenth Century."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-317) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807892904
- 9780807892909
- OCLC:
- 70335389
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