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Tortured subjects pain, truth, and the body in early modern France / by Silverman, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…As if pain could draw the truth from a suffering wretch" : pain as politics.…”
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The Enemy Within : Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic / by Chaitin, Gilbert D.

Table of Contents: “…-- The novel of national energy : nationalism, identity, and the transferential novel -- Contemporary history, by Anatole France : the memory of the present -- Contemporary history : filling the emptiness within -- Truth, by Émile Zola : Zola's daymare and the truth of verite -- Truth : true treason, or the rape of the Republic -- The erotics of politics.…”
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The Enemy Within : Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic / by Chaitin, Gilbert D.

Table of Contents: “…-- The novel of national energy : nationalism, identity, and the transferential novel -- Contemporary history, by Anatole France : the memory of the present -- Contemporary history : filling the emptiness within -- Truth, by Émile Zola : Zola's daymare and the truth of verite -- Truth : true treason, or the rape of the Republic -- The erotics of politics.…”
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The insight of unbelievers Nicholas of Lyra and Christian reading of Jewish text in the later Middle Ages / by Klepper, Deeana Copeland

Table of Contents: “….: mediating Hebrew traditions for a Christian audience -- The challenge of unbelief: knowing Christian truth through Jewish scripture -- Wrestling with Rashi: Nicholas of Lyra's quodlibetal questions and anti-Jewish polemic -- Christian ownership of Jewish text: Nicholas of Lyra as an alternative Jewish authority.…”
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Frères Ennemis : The French in American Literature, Americans in French Literature / by Cloonan, William J.

Table of Contents: “…The creation of the American in Paris: the American -- The splendor and misery of the American scientist: L'Ève future -- The American woman and the invention of Paris: The Custom of the Country -- The expatriate idyll: The Sun Also Rises -- Truths and delusions: the Cold War in Les Mandarins -- Embracing American culture: Cherokee -- An American Excursion into French fiction: The Book of Illusions -- Rerouting: Ça n'existe pas l'Amérique -- L'Américaine in Paris: Le Divorce.…”
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Frères Ennemis : The French in American Literature, Americans in French Literature / by Cloonan, William J.

Table of Contents: “…The creation of the American in Paris: the American -- The splendor and misery of the American scientist: L'Ève future -- The American woman and the invention of Paris: The Custom of the Country -- The expatriate idyll: The Sun Also Rises -- Truths and delusions: the Cold War in Les Mandarins -- Embracing American culture: Cherokee -- An American Excursion into French fiction: The Book of Illusions -- Rerouting: Ça n'existe pas l'Amérique -- L'Américaine in Paris: Le Divorce.…”
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The French idea of history Joseph de Maistre and his heirs, 1794-1854 / by Armenteros, Carolina

Table of Contents: “…Historical thought in France, 1798-1845: The new truth of historical knowledge : liberty, order, and the rise of the social fact, 1797-1848 ; Historical progress and the logic of sacrifice, 1822-54 ; The metapolitics of history : socialism, positivism, and tradition, 1820-48.…”
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