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- The "I" of History: Self-Fashioning and National Consciousness in Jules Michelet
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
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The "I" of History: Self-Fashioning and National Consciousness in Jules Michelet examines the poetics of the historian's self-portraiture as it intersects with the nation and history. History exists because someone tells the story. In Michelet's unique staging and performance of the past, the way the story is told is the story. 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, The "I" of History both exposes Michelet's vision of France, his grand narrative, and it demystifies that narrative in the analysis of Michelet's final text, History of the Nineteenth Century.
The "I" of History: Self-Fashioning and National Consciousness in Jules Michelet examines the poetics of the historian's self-portraiture as it intersects with nation and history. History exists because someone tells the story, but in Michelet's unique staging and performance of the past, the way the story is told is the real story. 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, even as it informs his project to use history to construct the nation. Offering a new multidisciplinary perspective, The "I" of History both exposes Michelet's vision of France, his grand narrative, and demystifies that narrative in its analysis of Michelet's final text, History of the Nineteenth Century.
The "I" of History: Self-Fashioning and National Consciousness in Jules Michelet examines the poetics of the historian's self-portraiture as it intersects with nation and history. History exists because someone tells the story, but in Michelet's unique staging and performance of the past, the way the story is told is the real story. 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, even as it informs his project to use history to construct the nation. Offering a new multidisciplinary perspective, The "I" of History both exposes Michelet's vision of France, his grand narrative, and demystifies that narrative in its analysis of Michelet's final text, History of the Nineteenth Century.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 1-6
- Table of Contents
- pp. 7-8
- Abbreviations
- pp. 9-10
- Introduction
- pp. 11-34
- Part I: Impersonating History
- pp. 35-36
- Chapter 1: Writing the Nation
- pp. 37-104
- Chapter 3: Impersonating History
- pp. 157-202
- Chapter 4: History of the Nineteenth Century
- pp. 205-245
- Part III: Constructing the Other
- pp. 245-246
- Chapter 5: The Race Card
- pp. 247-283
- Bibliography
- pp. 293-318
- Back Cover
- p. 327
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469642819
Related ISBN(s)
9780807892909
MARC Record
OCLC
1080549408
Pages
326
Launched on MUSE
2019-01-02
Language
English
Open Access
No