... of decadence against experience and experiment. The essay concludes that although the Recherche records political, social, and historical events—from the Dreyfus affair and a morphing class structure to the onset of the war—none of these readers saw it as an announcement of disasters to come. zp299...

..., to use the naturalist term, Mitterand's Zola, as a whole, paints a detailed tableau of the latter half of the nineteenth century. In keeping with the overall scheme, the third volume provides a captivating description of the political tremors-with the Dreyfus Affair as their epicenter-that rocked France...

...Andrew J. Counter Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Andrew]. Counter A SENTIMENTAL AFFAIR: vERITE O n 29 November 1899, ten days after President Emile Loubet signed an instrument pardoning Alfred Dreyfus for a crime that no one now believed he had committed, Emile Zola...

... difference threatened the liberal concept of the nation as a contract among publicly identical individuals, necessitating its sequestration as a foreign import. In a recent article on the Dreyfus Affair, Nicholas Dobelbower comments on the association of homosexuality with foreignness: In the context...

... : New York University Press , 1995 . Bowie Malcolm . Proust among the Stars . London : HarperCollins , 1998 . Descombes Vincent . Proust: Philosophie du roman . Paris : Éditions de Minuit , 1987 . Dreyfus Alfred . Lettres à la marquise. Correspondance inédite avec...

... of the nineteenth century. In keeping with the overall scheme, the third volume provides a captivating description of the political tremors-with the Dreyfus Affair as their epicenter-that rocked France during the last decade of the nineteenth century. Historical grounding is all the more significant in this part...

.... And yet, several years before defending Dreyfus, Zola published a novel, L'Argent (1891), with undeniably antisemitic overtones. In what follows, I want to trace Zola's itinerary from L'Argent to his final novel, Verite (1903), about the Dreyfus Affair, an itinerary that critics have characterized...

... in France and would over-­determine such events as the Dreyfus Affair some sixty years ­later. At first glance, studying nineteenth-c­ entury French Jewish history through the lens of friendship might seem ill advised. Given the weight of l­ater historical events t­he Dreyfus Affair and Vichy ­historians...

... Lethbridge, had done in 1990. The current closure of Zola's house is due to the most noble of ambitions: the construction of a Musee Dreyfus. But the sheer complexity of Zola's The Romanic Review Volume 102 Numbers 3-4 © The Trustees of Columbia University NICHOLAS WHITE relationship to this issue finds...

... of the Second Empire in the mud of Sedan (742-43). Such an occasional brush by Zola with Drumontian conspiracy theory explains why Theodor Adorno could once remark that "no matter how energetically Zola, the defender of Captain Dreyfus, fought against hatred of the Jews, elements can be found in his own works...

... « par haine du pratique », profitant d un héritage pour mener une vie mi-­studieuse mi-m­ ondaine avant la guerre de 1914. Il incarne, à bien des égards, ce que l on a appelé le franco-­judaïsme. Il est de la même génération à peu près qu Alfred Dreyfus, Bernard Lazare, Bergson, Durkheim, Proust, Halévy...

... L'Honneur unfailing reminds us of Hannah Arendt's pronouncement that the Dreyfus Affair was a "dress rehearsal" for the Shoah. Mitterand, for instance, comments on the Libre Parole's successful fundraising efforts for the wife of Colonel Henry, responsible for drafting the "faux patriotique" inculpating...

..., the other secular, wherein 'object loss' might finally be made up. Elsewhere, however, reference to historical context is more doubtful. The opening remarks of his book, for example, seem unnecessarily contradictory. He begins by briefly listing the tumultuous events of the fin de siecle-Dreyfus, Panama...

... les expérimentations esthétiques du roman de l affaire Dreyfus. Et, si la fin des Thibault, avec L Été 1914 (1936) et Épilogue (1940), s inscrit dans la masse des uvres faisant resurgir l ombre de la Première Guerre à l heure d une nouvelle montée des périls, cette expérience s y donne sous le régime...

... d'Edmond de C;oncourt. Le chapitre III entreprend de revenir sur I'incontournable Affaire Dreyfus. Leroy en retrace les grandes lignes tout en analysant les differentes positions des intellectuels et ecrivains vis-a-vis de I'cvenenlent qui divisa la aFrance dallsles dernieres annees du siecle. L'auteur...

... Dreyfus, obsedee par la « raison d'Etat» (A. France). Inaugurant la deuxieme partie, « La fabrique romanesque de l'evenement », A. Deruelle et J.-M. Roulin suivent Ie jeu d'elements qui, dans une « fiction sous contrainte du referent» (176), produisent un « effet d'histoire » : dates connues ou...

... by Scapp Ron and Seitz Brian , 92 – 111 . Albany : SUNY Press , 1998 (with Sharon Zukin). “ A Cultural Field in the Making: Gastronomy in 19th-Century France .” American journal of Sociology 104 , no. 3 ( 1998 ): 597 – 641 . “ De Paris à l’affaire Dreyfus: le parcours d’un...

... monde au-d­ elà des catégories sartriennes, qui ont durablement marqué le débat critique mais qui sont sourdes à la complexité que l on vient d évoquer ? La réflexion de Sartre plonge ses racines dans le débat de l Affaire ­Dreyfus et ravive le conflit entre deux conceptions fondamentales de l art...

... politico-financial scandal that rocked France in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair, threatening to bring down not only the government but the emergent Third Republic itself. The involvement of Matisse's father-in-law in this affair - and the campaign mounted on his behalf over the next eighteen months...

... in a very different direction. Furthermore, he was reluctant to see aesthetic and literary ideas applied directly to politics and in particular to the creation of organized, political parties, a task that increasingly occupied Maurras in the latter half of the 1890s and after the Dreyfus Affair...