French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Ideology of Culture

by David Carroll

Book Overview

This is the first book to provide a sustained critical analysis of the literary-aesthetic dimension of French fascism--the peculiarly French form of what Walter Benjamin called the fascist "aestheticizing of politics." Focusing first on three important extremist nationalist writers at the turn of the century and then on five of the most visible fascist intellectuals in France in the 1930s, David Carroll shows how both traditional and modern concepts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691058466
• ISBN13: 9780691058467
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"