The economy of glory : from ancien régime France to the fall of Napoleon / Robert Morrissey ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.

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Morrissey, Robert, 1947-

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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226924595
0226924599
1306129443
9781306129442

Uniform titles:

Napoléon et l'héritage de la gloire. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Economy of glory.DDC classification:

944.05 23

LOC classification:

DC203.9 .M6813 2014

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Translated from the French with translated French selections.

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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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