Synopses & Reviews
Editors’ Preface
Dan Edelstein and Bettina Lerner
Mythomania and Modernity
Part I: From Nation to Republic
Bettina Lerner
Michelet, Mythologue
Leon Sachs
Teaching to the Choir: The Republican Schoolteacher and the Sanctity of Secularism
Tyler Stovall
The Myth of the Liberatory Republic and the Political Culture of Freedom in Imperial France
Part II: Reading Revolution
Marie-Hélène Huet
The Face of Disaster
Dan Edelstein
The Modernization of Myth: From Balzac to Sorel
Edward Berenson
Fashoda, Dreyfus, and the Myth of Jean-Baptiste Marchand
Part III: Mythical Selves
Göran Blix
Heroic Genesis in the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène Natacha Allet
Myth and Legend in Antonin Artaud’s Theater
Jean-Marie Apostolidès
Hergé and the Myth of the Superchild
Lawrence Kritzman
De Gaulle’s Mémoires: Self-Portraiture and the Rhetoric of the Nation
Synopsis
Editors Preface
Dan Edelstein and Bettina Lerner
Mythomania and Modernity
Part I: From Nation to Republic
Bettina Lerner
Michelet, Mythologue
Leon Sachs
Teaching to the Choir: The Republican Schoolteacher and the Sanctity of Secularism
Tyler Stovall
The Myth of the Liberatory Republic and the Political Culture of Freedom in Imperial France
Part II: Reading Revolution
Marie-Hélène Huet
The Face of Disaster
Dan Edelstein
The Modernization of Myth: From Balzac to Sorel
Edward Berenson
Fashoda, Dreyfus, and the Myth of Jean-Baptiste Marchand
Part III: Mythical Selves
Göran Blix
Heroic Genesis in the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène Natacha Allet
Myth and Legend in Antonin Artauds Theater
Jean-Marie Apostolidès
Hergé and the Myth of the Superchild
Lawrence Kritzman
De Gaulles Mémoires: Self-Portraiture and the Rhetoric of the Nation
Synopsis
Editors Preface
Dan Edelstein and Bettina Lerner
Mythomania and Modernity
Part I: From Nation to Republic
Bettina Lerner
Michelet, Mythologue
Leon Sachs
Teaching to the Choir: The Republican Schoolteacher and the Sanctity of Secularism
Tyler Stovall
The Myth of the Liberatory Republic and the Political Culture of Freedom in Imperial France
Part II: Reading Revolution
Marie-Helene Huet
The Face of Disaster
Dan Edelstein
The Modernization of Myth: From Balzac to Sorel
Edward Berenson
Fashoda, Dreyfus, and the Myth of Jean-Baptiste Marchand
Part III: Mythical Selves
Goran Blix
Heroic Genesis in the Memorial de Sainte-Helene Natacha Allet
Myth and Legend in Antonin Artaud s Theater
Jean-Marie Apostolides
Herge and the Myth of the Superchild
Lawrence Kritzman
De Gaulle s Memoires: Self-Portraiture and the Rhetoric of the Nation
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