Alain Corbin (1936–)

Daileader, Philip (editor) / Whalen, Philip (editor) / McPhee, Peter (author)

French Historians 1900–2000 ; 136-143

2010-04-09

8 pages

9781405198677 , 9781444323658

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444323658.ch10

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

Alain Corbin ‐ distinctive contribution to French historiography since 1980 , Corbin's mastery of approach and methodology of classic French social history ‐ examination of extant sources , Les Filles de noce ‐ social and cultural history encouraging Corbin , Republican political triumph of 1877 ‐ peasants seen as sturdy personification of republican virtues , Corbin's insights into cultural anthropology ‐ distance of time, space and perception between ourselves and rural inhabitants , Corbin's discovery ‐ focus of fascination and horror , Les Cloches de la terre: paysage sonore et culture sensible dans les campagnes au XIXe siècle, investigation of auditory landscape of countryside