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- Title
Letters to Lucie: Spirituality, Friendship, and Politics during the Dreyfus Affair.
- Authors
Harris, Ruth
- Abstract
Analyzes letters written Lucie Dreyfus during the period when her husband Arthur Dreyfus was exiled on Devil's Island after charged with treason in 1894 in France. Reflection of the high-water mark of the epistolary mode in Western society in the letters; Expression of both the centrality of friendship and shared ideals in the creation of a cause celebre; Impact of the continuing correspondence on the political outlook of Lucie.
- Subjects
DEVIL'S Island (French Guiana); FRANCE; DREYFUS, Lucie; DREYFUS, Arthur; LETTER writing; INTERPERSONAL communication; POLITICAL participation
- Publication
French Historical Studies, 2005, Vol 28, Issue 4, p601
- ISSN
0016-1071
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/00161071-28-4-601