Le temps, le désir et l'horreur. Essais sur le XIXe siècle

by Alain Corbin

French

244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Alain Corbin is a French historian, specialist of the 19th century in France.

Trained in the Annales School, Corbin's work has moved away from the large-scale collective structures studied by Fernand Braudel towards a history of sensibilities which is closer to Lucien Febvre's history of mentalités. His books have explored the histories of such subjects as male desire and prostitution, sensory experience of smell and sound, and the 1870 burning of a young nobleman in a Dordogne village.

Reviews

[Blanche · Rating 5 out of 5]

excellent contenu très dense sur l'histoire des sensibilités x individualités au XIXe siècle.
l'organisation des textes est quelque peu abrupte et peut nuire à la lecture de l'ouvrage mais correspond à celle d'un ouvrage général d'histoire.