Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook422 pages6 hours
The Economy of Glory: From Ancien Régime France to the Fall of Napoleon
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
From the outset of Napoleon’s career, the charismatic Corsican was compared to mythic heroes of antiquity like Achilles, and even today he remains the apotheosis of French glory, a value deeply embedded in the country’s history. From this angle, the Napoleonic era can be viewed as the final chapter in the battle of the Ancients and Moderns. In this book, Robert Morrissey presents a literary and cultural history of glory and its development in France and explores the “economy of glory” Napoleon sought to implement in an attempt to heal the divide between the Old Regime and the Revolution.
Examining how Napoleon saw glory as a means of escaping the impasse of Revolutionary ideas of radical egalitarianism, Morrissey illustrates the challenge the leader faced in reconciling the antagonistic values of virtue and self-interest, heroism and equality. He reveals that the economy of glory was both egalitarian, creating the possibility of an aristocracy based on merit rather than wealth, and traditional, being deeply embedded in the history of aristocratic chivalry and the monarchy—making it the heart of Napoleon’s politics of fusion. Going beyond Napoleon, Morrissey considers how figures of French romanticism such as Chateaubriand, Balzac, and Hugo constantly reevaluated this legacy of glory and its consequences for modernity. Available for the first time in English, The Economy of Glory is a sophisticated and beautifully written addition to French history.
Examining how Napoleon saw glory as a means of escaping the impasse of Revolutionary ideas of radical egalitarianism, Morrissey illustrates the challenge the leader faced in reconciling the antagonistic values of virtue and self-interest, heroism and equality. He reveals that the economy of glory was both egalitarian, creating the possibility of an aristocracy based on merit rather than wealth, and traditional, being deeply embedded in the history of aristocratic chivalry and the monarchy—making it the heart of Napoleon’s politics of fusion. Going beyond Napoleon, Morrissey considers how figures of French romanticism such as Chateaubriand, Balzac, and Hugo constantly reevaluated this legacy of glory and its consequences for modernity. Available for the first time in English, The Economy of Glory is a sophisticated and beautifully written addition to French history.
Unavailable
Related to The Economy of Glory
Related ebooks
The Complete Works of Guglielmo Ferrero Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Man Who Was Victor Hugo: Memoirs, Essays, Letters & Speeches: With Accompanied Biography Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsParis by Emile Zola (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrance on the Brink: A Great Civilization in the New Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in France Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLes Misérables Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Proust among the Nations: From Dreyfus to the Middle East Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsParis as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-Century City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNationalizing France's Army: Foreign, Black, and Jewish Troops in the French Military, 1715-1831 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVictor Hugo: Autobiographical Works: Memoirs, Essays, Letters & Speeches, With Accompanied Biography Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Culture of Disaster Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5They Eat Horses, Don't They?: The Truth About the French Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrance, a Nation on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe World Crisis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCollected Travel Memoirs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPast Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Time and radical politics in France: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Negotiator: The Masterclass at Saint-Germain Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRomancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Republican passions: Family, friendship and politics in nineteenth-century France Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDanton: A study Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMain Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature: The Emigrant Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Three Cities Paris Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCosmopolitan Patriots: Americans in Paris in the Age of Revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThree French Moralists and The Gallantry of France Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCharacters and events of Roman History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Criticism For You
The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Seduction: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/512 Rules For Life: by Jordan Peterson | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Verity: by Colleen Hoover | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Secret History: by Donna Tartt | Conversation Starters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBehold a Pale Horse: by William Cooper | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Novel by Gabriel Garcia Márquez | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Court of Thorns and Roses: A Novel by Sarah J. Maas | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Letters to a Young Poet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5SUMMARY Of The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in Healthy Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.by Brené Brown | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Man's Search for Meaning: by Viktor E. Frankl | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Between the World and Me: by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Killers of the Flower Moon: by David Grann | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Alone: by Kristin Hannah | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for The Economy of Glory
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews