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Author Forth, Christopher E.

Title The Dreyfus affair and the crisis of French manhood / Christopher E. Forth.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

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 Moore Stacks  DC354 .F63 2004    Available  ---
Description xii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 121st ser., 2
Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 121st ser., 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-292) and index.
Contents Introduction: The body politics of the Dreyfus Affair -- Masculinity and the Jewish question. Masculine performances : Alfred Dreyfus and the paradox of the Jewish soldier -- Dreyfusard Fantasies. Sanctifying Dreyfus : intellectuals, Jews, and the body of Christ -- Educating the will : crowds, contagion, and the Dreyfusard body -- Adventures of the naked truth : women and the Dreyfusard imagination -- Remaking the male body. The belly of Paris : manhood, obesity, and the body of Zola -- The new man and the culture of force -- Conclusion: An affair to remember.
Subject Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935.
Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935.
France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940.
France.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1870-1940
Subject Masculinity -- France.
Masculinity.
Joden.
Mannelijkheid.
4.280.
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