Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France
From Anarchism to Action française
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 January 2019
- ISBN 9780198831167
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 216x148x15 mm
- Weight 374 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France explores the relations between poetry and politics in France in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Beginning with Mallarmé and ending with Maurras, it focuses on radical politics of the left and right and 'avant-garde' poetries.
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Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France explores the relations between poetry and politics in France in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The period covers the most important developments in modern French poetry: from the post-Commune climate that spawned the 'decadent' movement, through to the (allegedly) ivory-towered aestheticism of Mallarmé and the Symbolists. In terms of French politics, history, and culture, the period was no less dramatic, with the legacy of the Commune, the political and financial instability that followed, the anarchist campaigns, the Dreyfus affair, and the growth of Action française.
This study demonstrates the connections between the anti-Symbolist reaction of the école romane of 1891 (in which Charles Maurras first made his name) and the far-right cultural politics of Action française in the early twentieth century. It also redefines many of the debates about late nineteenth-century French poetry by complicating the political engagement of the Symbolists in an era when the French 'intellectuel' as a national icon was being forged. McGuinness insists on profound continuities between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth in terms of cultural politics, literary debate, and poetic theory, and shows how politics is to be found in unexpected ways in the least political-seeming literature of the period.
The famous line by Péguy, that everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics, has an appealing sweep and grace. This book has its own more modest and specific version of a similar journey: it begins in Mallarmé and ends in Maurras.
Combining close reading with broad theoretical questions, Patrick McGuinness's latest book is a thorough, lively, and multidimensional study of the relation, or rather relations, between poetry and radical politics ... scholars interested in fin-de-siècle poetry and politics and non-specialists interested in a context-based theoretical articulation of the relations between poetry and politics will find much to provoke further question and analysis.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Poetry, Politics, and the Legacies of Romanticism
The Language of Politics in Symbolist and Decadent Polemic
Symbolism and Literary Anarchism
Symbolists and Anarchists
The École romane: An arrière-garde within the avant-garde
Reactionary Poetics: Maurras and the École romane
Afterword
Selective Bibliography
Index
