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Dreyfus : politics, emotion, and the scandal of the century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, Ruth, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
Dreyfus, Alfred, > 1859-1935.
Scandals > France > History > 19th century.
France > Politics and government > 1870-1940.
Political culture > France > History > 19th century.
Antisemitism > France > History > 19th century.
Jews > France > Biography.
Intellectuals > France > Biography.
Treason > France > History > 19th century.
Trials (Treason) > Political aspects > France > History > 19th century.
France > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Trial and errors
  • Degradation
  • Family and friends
  • France, Germany, and the Jewish community
  • The Alsatian connection
  • Zola
  • Intellectuals and anti-intellectuals
  • The polemic begins
  • Dreyfusard contradictions
  • "Anti-intellectuals" : Catholics and the occult
  • Dreyfusards and the Judaeo-Christian tradition
  • Mother-love and nationalism : Maurice Barrès and Jules Soury
  • Movements and mystiques
  • Anti-Dreyfusard movements and martyrology
  • The Dreyfusard mystique
  • Salonnières left and right
  • Rightist illusions
  • The end of the affair
  • Alfred returns
  • The trial and its aftermath
  • Aftershocks
  • Rehabilitation
  • Epilogue
  • Chronology
  • Dramatis personae.