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At the peak of his career, after having established himself as an accomplished writer, astute moraliste, and the foremost spokesperson of his generation for personal freedom and self-realization, Gide became aware, first, that his particular brand of bourgeois individualism was becoming increasingly irrelevant in the contemporary world and, second, that social commitment and even revolution could serve as a powerful source of inspiration and self-renewal. Over a ten-year period that began in the 1920s and ended with his public break with the Soviet Union in 1936, Gide the committed intellectual interacted with society in ways that were for him unprecedented. These essays examine the outcomes of Gide s evolving commitment to a host of controversial issues ranging from the sexual to the political, from the literary to the social.
- About the authors
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Tom Conner is Associate Professor of French at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-12
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The Meaning and Impact of André Gide’s Engagement
Pages 13-22
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The Unrepentant Prodigal: Gide’s Classical Politics and Republican Nationalism, 1897–1909
Pages 23-45
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Practices of Posterity: Gide and the Cultural Politics of Sexuality
Pages 47-71
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Gide and Justice: The Immoralist in the Palace of Reason
Pages 73-88
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Andre Gide's Politics
- Book Subtitle
- Rebellion and Ambivalence
- Authors
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- NA NA
- Copyright
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-349-62532-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-349-62532-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-312-22708-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 296
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