Enlightenment phantasies : cultural identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914

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Label

Enlightenment phantasies : cultural identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914

Title remainder

cultural identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914

Statement of responsibility

Harold Mah

Creator

• Mah, Harold

Subject

• Enlightenment -- Germany -- Influence
• France -- Civilization
• Enlightenment -- France -- Influence
• Germany -- Civilization
• Germany -- Intellectual life
• France -- Intellectual life

Language

eng

Summary

"For centuries the histories of France and Germany have been linked in ways both productive and destructive, and each nation's sense of itself has often been shaped by admiration of or hostility toward the other. Harold Mah explores the interweaving paths of German and French cultural identity that emerged in the Enlightenment and continued through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth." "Mah's book examines how attempts to define cultural identities were caught up in issues of language, gender, classical revival, politics, and modernity. Enlightenment Phantasies presents the shaping of cultural identity in narratives accessible not only to specialists but also to students and all readers concerned with the history of Western culture."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.2

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

B1925.E5

LC item number

M34 2003

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography