The Novelization of the Dreyfus Affair: Femininity and Sensation in Fin-de-Siècle France 1

2017 ◽  
pp. 163-178
Author(s):  
Christopher E. Forth
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Dreyfus Affair ◽  
Fin De Siècle

9. After the Rougon-Macquart

2020 ◽  
pp. 104-122
Author(s):  
Brian Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Monoxide ◽  
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Victor Hugo ◽  
The Public ◽  
Personal Significance ◽  
Dreyfus Affair ◽  
Fin De Siècle

‘After the Rougon-Macquart’ considers the final novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, Doctor Pascal. This novel explores the themes of science and religion, renewal and rebirth. The latter theme was of personal significance to Zola, as he had recently fathered two children with his mistress, Jeanne Rozerot. Zola’s later fiction is discussed in the context of the climate of ideas in France in the fin de siècle. The writer’s involvement in the Dreyfus affair brought him glaringly into the public eye, and may indeed have led to his death: he died from carbon monoxide poisoning, suspected to be the result of foul play. His remains were interred in the Panthéon alongside Voltaire, Rousseau, and Victor Hugo.

Rūdolfs Blaumanis, the Dreyfus Affair and the Anglo-Boer War: Colonial difference and identity construction in fin-de-siècle Latvian society

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-141
Author(s):  
Benedikts Kalnačs
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Early Form ◽  
Boer War ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Dreyfus Affair ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Russian Empire

This article offers an insight into the social and cultural scene in Latvia at the end of the nineteenth century. The territory of this Baltic state was then still part of the Russian Empire, divided among several of its provinces. However, this was also a period when the cultural aspirations of the rising Latvian middle class were represented by the gradual attempts to raise the self-esteem of the entire local population. The article focuses on the role that Latvian writer Rūdolfs Blaumanis (1863–1908) played in encouraging Latvians to understand themselves as a self-confident people during the fin-de-siècle period. The first part examines articles published by Blaumanis in the Latvian press during 1899 and 1900 in which he deals with the explosive political issues of the time, namely the Dreyfus Affair in France and the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa. These case studies are then followed by theoretical considerations. Taking into account the political and social contexts in which these texts were written, the way Blaumanis approaches these topics is interpreted as an attempt at self-positioning and identity construction of the local population while also creating an early form of counter-colonial narrative.

Illustrated Media, the Built Environment and Identity Politics in Fin-de-siècle Catalonia: Printing Images, Making the Nation

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Lucila Mallart
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This article explores the role of visuality in the identity politics of fin-de-siècle Catalonia. It engages with the recent reevaluation of the visual, both as a source for the history of modern nation-building, and as a constitutive element in the emergence of civic identities in the liberal urban environment. In doing so, it offers a reading of the mutually constitutive relationship of the built environment and the print media in late-nineteenth century Catalonia, and explores the role of this relation as the mechanism by which the so-called ‘imagined communities’ come to exist. Engaging with debates on urban planning and educational policies, it challenges established views on the interplay between tradition and modernity in modern nation-building, and reveals long-term connections between late-nineteenth-century imaginaries and early-twentieth-century beliefs and practices.

Medical Humanism and Blackwood’s Magazine at the Fin de Siècle

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Coyer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Medical Humanism

If Blackwood’s helped to generate a recuperative medical humanism in the first half of the nineteenth century, what was its legacy? This ‘Coda’ turns to the fin de siècle to trace some key examples of a resurgence of the magazine’s mode of medical humanism at a time of perceived crisis for the medical profession, when many began ‘to worry that the transformation of medicine into a science, as well as the epistemological and technical successes of the new sciences, may have been bought at too great a price’....

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