The French Cult of the Modern

dc.contributor.author Gavin Murray-Miller en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2014-10-27T15:39:54Z
dc.date.available 2014-10-27T15:39:54Z
dc.date.issued 2011-09-?? zh_TW
dc.description.abstract Reflections on French modernity and modernity in general have customarily been associated with the notion of bourgeois social primacy, outlining a scheme in which industrialization, capitalism, and forms of middle-class sociability and culture have typically served as criteria for mapping the contours of Western modernity. This article seeks to reassess this conventional perspective by examining how the idiom of modernity played a central role in reformulating elite social identity in the midst of the rising democratic political culture taking shape in France during the middle of the nineteenth century. As elites came to terms with mass democracy and colonialism, concepts of modernity and “modern society” became hallmarks of a new public discourse with both inclusive and exclusionary implications, enshrining modernity as a key organizing principle in both the articulation of new social hierarchies and power relationships. This style of representing encouraged a shift toward an identity regime grounded in conceptions of time and temporality which not only broke with established tenets of “bourgeois” liberalism but equally sketched the outline of a new social order in which modernity became the legitimacy for power and domination in a country ostensibly committed to the principles of social equality and pluralism. en_US
dc.identifier 7C76BBB1-DCDB-8A86-E40B-A1F0C726C44B zh_TW
dc.identifier.uri http://rportal.lib.ntnu.edu.tw/handle/20.500.12235/23414
dc.language 英文 zh_TW
dc.publisher 英語學系 zh_tw
dc.publisher Department of English, NTNU en_US
dc.relation 37(2),29-49 zh_TW
dc.relation.ispartof 同心圓:文學與文化研究 zh_tw
dc.subject.other French modernity en_US
dc.subject.other French colonialism en_US
dc.subject.other post-Revolutionary European culture en_US
dc.subject.other bourgeois social identity en_US
dc.subject.other modernization en_US
dc.title The French Cult of the Modern zh-tw
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