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In the Context of His Times

Alfred Dreyfus as Lover, Intellectual, Poet, and Jew
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From the very moment Alfred Dreyfus was placed under arrest for treason and espionage, his entire world was turned upside down, and for the next five years he lived in what he called a phantasmagoria. To keep himself sane, Dreyfus wrote letters to and received letters from his wife Lucie and exercised his intellect through reading the few books and magazines his censors allowed him, writing essays on these and other texts he had read in the past, and working out problems in mathematics, physics, and chemistry. He practiced his English and created strange drawings his prison wardens called architectural or kabbalistic signs. In this volume, Norman Simms explores how Dreyfus kept himself from exploding into madness by reading his essays carefully, placing them in the context of his century, and extrapolating from them the hidden recesses of the Jewish Alsatian background he shared with the Dreyfus family and Lucie Hadamard.

Author Biography:

Norman Simmsis associate professor in the department of humanities and English at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. He is the author of Festival of Laughter, Blood and Justice in Biblical and Classica Literature, Marranos on the Moradas: Secret Jews and Penitentes in the Southwestern United States from 1590-1890, andAlfred Dreyfus: Man, Milieu, Mentality, and Midrash.
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July 18th, 2013
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  • General (US: Trade)
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350
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156x234x24
ISBN-13
9781618112361
Product ID
21534278

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