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 Elisee 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
ISBN-13
9780810132801
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221947238
Product Key Features
Author
Dana Kristofor Lindaman
Publication Name
Becoming French: Mapping the Geographies of French Identity, 1871-1914
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Archaeology, Geography & Geosciences
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Dana Kristofor Lindaman
Topic
Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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