The economy of glory : from ancien régime France to the fall of Napoleon / Robert Morrissey ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780226924595
- 0226924599
- 1306129443
- 9781306129442
- Napoléon et l'héritage de la gloire. English
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Influence
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- France -- History -- Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815 -- Historiography
- Emperors -- France -- Historiography
- Empereurs -- France -- Historiographie
- HISTORY -- Europe -- France
- Emperors -- Historiography
- Historiography
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- France
- 1799-1815
- 944.05 23
- DC203.9 .M6813 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction -- From pagan antiquity to Christian thought -- Kings, warriors, poets: on the cusp of modernity -- Motivation and leadership in the Enlightment -- An economy of glory -- New sensibility, new knowledge, new institutions -- Toward a poetics of fusion: the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène -- Conclusion.
Translated from the French with translated French selections.
Print version record.
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. Exami.
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