Mapping memory in nineteenth-century French literature and culture / edited by Susan Harrow and Andrew Watts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrow, Susan.

Watts, Andrew, Ph. D.

Series:

Faux titre ; no. 369.

Faux titre, 0167-9392 ; 369

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

French literature--19th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Memory in literature.

France--Civilization--19th century.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2012.

Language Note:

French

Summary:

Memory and memory studies have shaped a major site of humanities research over the last twenty years. Examined by ethnographers, archaeologists, social scientists, historians, economists, archivists, art historians, and literary scholars, the theme of memory – individual memory and memoir, collective memory, official memory and oral memory, cultural memory and popular memory – has informed academic discourse and formed institutional structures. Yet, the matter of memory is, paradoxically, under-explored in studies of the ‘long nineteenth century’ in France. Mapping Memory in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture focuses critical attention on that neglected century when France was struggling to negotiate the serially renewed memory of revolutionary turmoil and socio-cultural redefinition. This volume explores the spaces that the memory process claims and shapes, and it works to identify the crosscurrents that connect those spaces. It asks how memory resists – or cedes to – colonisations by authority, by official discourse, by history, and by aesthetics. It asks how memory-work coincides with or morphs into the processes of the imagination. Eschewing diachronic approaches, the contributors to this volume explore sites around which memory is concentrated or which it shapes and informs: Memory on the Street; Sites of National Memory; Metamorphoses: Memory and Literary Practice; and Memory’s Imaginary Spaces.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Notes on contributors

Preface

Introduction

The Word on the Street: Remembering the Paris Commune in the Twenty-First Century / Colette Wilson

Staging La Fête des fous et de l’âne in 1898: A Commemoration of the Literary Middle Ages / Elizabeth Emery

La Composante populaire de l’Affaire Dreyfus, et ses effets d’oubli ultérieur / Luc Nemeth

Spectres de Madame Bovary : la transfictionnalité comme remémoration / Richard Saint-Gelais

Napoleonic Memory and Memoir: Military Friendship and the Memoirs of Colonel Combe / Brian Martin

Myth-Making and Memento: L’Expédition des Portes de Fer / Melanie Vandenbrouck-Przybylski

La Fête nationale, espace de construction d’une mémoire nationale au XIXe siècle / Rémi Dalisson

Reporting on the Nineteenth Century: Catulle Mendès, Le Mouvement poétique français de 1867 à 1900 / Ben Fisher

Balzac’s ‘mal d’archive’? ‘Lieux de mémoire’ in Le Lys dans la vallée / Owen Heathcote

L’Ecriture du souvenir dans les ‘Journaux’ de Stendhal / Lucy Garnier and Cécile Meynard

Remémorer Rabelais en France au XIXe siècle : un souvenir d’avenir? / Tim Farrant

Souvenirs zutiques, en vers et contre tous / Denis Saint-Amand

Cultural History in Question: Flaubert’s La Légende de saint Julien l’hospitalier and the Genres of Collective Memory / Mary Orr

Memory, Vision and Meaning in La Tentation de saint Antoine: The Mechanics of a Narrative Hallucination / Carmen K. Mayer-Robin

Territoire de la mémoire, territoire du réel dans La Faute de l’abbé Mouret d’Emile Zola : le récit d’une transgression impossible / Emilie Piton-Foucault

Prophesying the Past: From Memory to Sacrifice in Barbey d’Aurevilly’s Un prêtre marié / Francesco Manzini

Index.

Notes:

Contributions in English and French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-87527-5

9786613716583

94-012-0742-9

OCLC:

798613065

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401207423 DOI