Culture Wars and Literature in the French Third Republic by Gilbert D. Chaitin
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1847188087 | 220 pages | PDF | 0,9 MB
In The Enemy Within, Gilbert D. Chaitin deepens our understanding of the nature and sources of culture wars during the French Third Republic. The psychological trauma caused by the Ferry educational reform laws of 1880-1882, which strove to create a new national identity based on secular morality rather than God-given commandments, pitted Catholics against proponents of lay education and gave rise to novels by Bourget, Barres, A. France and Zola.