Overview
Becoming French explores the geographical shift that occurs in French society during the first four decades of France's Third Republic government. Dana Kristofor Lindaman provides the historical context that led to the explosion of geographic interest at the end of the nineteenth century, exploring the ways that the work of the geographers Paul Vidal de la Blache and Élisée Reclus served as a conceptual basis for abstract notions of the nation such as la Patrie. Lindaman then uses Reclus's formulation of the earth as """"une organisme terrestre"""" (terrestrial organism) to read Jules Verne's Voyage au centre de la terre (Journey to the Center of the Earth) as a journey to the center of the individual self. Finally, he traces the geographic narrative of G. Bruno's Tour de la France par deux enfants, in particular the way that Bruno's work incorporates the geographic thought of Vidal de la Blache, to discover the organic ties that bind readers through the shared experience of reading the text.
Full Product Details
Author: Dana Kristofor Lindaman
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Imprint: Northwestern University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.268kg
ISBN: 9780810132795
ISBN 10: 0810132796
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 30 July 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A provocative, cogent book that opens up new perspectives in the history of French geography, both as academic discipline and cultural touchstone. --M. Martin Guiney, author of Teaching the Cult of Literature in the French Third Republic A provocative, cogent book that opens up new perspectives in the history of French geography, both as academic discipline and cultural touchstone. M. Martin Guiney, author of Teaching the Cult of Literature in the French Third Republic
A provocative, cogent book that opens up new perspectives in the history of French geography, both as academic discipline and cultural touchstone. M. Martin Guiney, author of Teaching the Cult of Literature in the French Third Republic
A provocative, cogent book that opens up new perspectives in the history of French geography, both as academic discipline and cultural touchstone. --M. Martin Guiney, author of Teaching the Cult of Literature in the French Third Republic
"""A provocative, cogent book that opens up new perspectives in the history of French geography, both as academic discipline and cultural touchstone.""--M. Martin Guiney, author of Teaching the Cult of Literature in the French Third Republic"
Author Information
Dana Lindaman is an assistant professor of French studies at University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA.
