One story of academia : race lines and the rhetoric of distinction through the Académie française / Moussa Traoré.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Traoré, Moussa, 1936-2020.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures ; v. 176.

Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures ; v. 176

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Académie française.

Literature and society--France--History--17th century.

Literature and society.

History.

France.

Physical Description:

viii, 283 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2010]

Contents:

Chapter 1 - The Académie française: Theory of Uniqueness, Mystique of Attraction and Tests of Worth 13

History of the Académie française and its Influence outside of France 20

The Power of the Academic Myth and the Reality of its Pursuit 23

Chapter 2 - The Académie française and Indirect Exclusions 29

Class matters 29

Gender matters 30

Ethnicity and Religion matter 38

Nationality matters 46

Ideology and Politics matter 47

Chapter 3 - Literal Exclusions: From Academically Exclusive to Social Disgrace 63

Chapter 4 - The Dictionnaire de l'Académie and its Meaning 69

Chapter 5 - The Académie and Frenchness before the 18th-Century 73

Chapter 6 - Heritage of the Academic Accomplishments: The 17th-Century in the Rhetoric of French Uniqueness and Purity in the 20th 97

Chapter 7 - The Académie, Europe and the Colonial Rhetoric on Race Separation 119

Chapter 8 - The 18th-Century: Philosophers and Church Men in the Académie 133

Key Agents of the Enlightenment in the 18th-Century Académie: Saint-Pierre, Montesquieu, Voltaire 136

Consequences of the 18th-Century "Europe française": Influence of the Académie française and outside Reactions to it 141

Economy of the Struggles in the Académie before the Revolution and Developments Thereafter 148

Defending the Anciens beyond the Revolution into the Empire: the Case of abbé (later Cardinal) Maury 156

Chapter 9 - The 19th-Century: Modern Imperialism and Academic Discourse 161

Hugo on Napoleon 163

Alfred de Vigny: Challenger of the Académie 166

Alfred de Musset 184

Emile Littré 186

Alexandre Dumas fils 188

Renan and the Ending 19th-Century 190

The Bridge of the Centuries: Technology, Nationality and Race 191

Chapter 10 - The 20th-Century: Colonialism and Internationalism 197

Nationalism, Race, and Issues of Creativity and Influence 197

About Leading Europe and Directing Western Civilization 204

Theorizing Race and Ethnicity as the Defining Elements of Imagined Communities 217

Civilization and its Others: Rhetoric on the Role of Race in 'Distinguished' Accomplishments 224.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781433109164

1433109166

OCLC:

504272942

Publisher Number:

99938582479