A fascinating look into the life and work of controversial French novelist Iréne Nèmirovsky (1903-1942). She succeeded in creating a brilliant career as a novelist in the 1930s, only to have her life cut short: a "foreign Jew" in France, she was deported in 1942 and died in Ausc…
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A fascinating look into the life and work of controversial French novelist Irene Nemirovsky. Irene Nemirovsky succeeded in creating a brilliant career as a novelist in the 1930s, only to have her life cut short: a 'foreign Jew' in France, she was deported in 1942 and died in Aus…
This is the first book to provide a sustained critical analysis of the literary-aesthetic dimension of French fascism--the peculiarly French form of what Walter Benjamin called the fascist "aestheticizing of politics." Focusing first on three important extremist nationalist writ…
Blood will tell explores the ways in which writers, thinkers, and politicians used blood and vampire-related imagery to express social and cultural anxieties in the decades leading up to the First World War. Covering a wide variety of topics, including science, citizenship, gend…
"Blood Will Tell" explores the ways in which writers, thinkers, and politicians used blood and vampire related imagery to express social and cultural anxieties in the decades leading up to the First World War. Covering a wide variety of topics, including science, citizenship, ge…
Blood will tell explores the ways in which writers, thinkers, and politicians used blood and vampire-related imagery to express social and cultural anxieties in the decades leading up to the First World War. Covering a wide variety of topics, including science, citizenship, gend…
Blood will tell explores the ways in which writers, thinkers, and politicians used blood and vampire-related imagery to express social and cultural anxieties in the decades leading up to the First World War. Covering a wide variety of topics, including science, citizenship, gend…
Discusses the characteristics of antisemitism in Russia during the 19th century as expressed in works of fiction, history, and journalism, by writers and publicists such as Sergei Aksakov, Faddei Bulgarin, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, and others. States that countless such work…
