The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood

by Christopher E. Forth

Book Overview

In 1894, French army captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, was wrongly accused of passing military secrets to the Germans. The ensuing scandal has often been studied for what it reveals about French anti-Semitism and tensions between republicanism and conservatism under the Third Republic. But because treason was considered a cowardly--and therefore effeminate--act, Dreyfus also embodied, for many, the danger of effeminate men masquerading in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801883857
• ISBN13: 9780801883859
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher