Alain Corbin
Alain Corbin (born January 12, 1936 in Lonlay-l'Abbaye)[1] is a French historian. He is a specialist of the 19th century in France and in microhistory.
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.[2] 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.
Works[]
- Les filles de noce: Misère sexuelle et prostitution au XIXe siècle, 1978
- Translation: Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850, (published 1996)
- Le territoire du vide: L'occident et le désir du rivage (1750-1840), 1978
- Translation: The Lure of the Sea: The Discovery of the Seaside in the Western World, 1750-1840, (published 1994)
- Le miasme et la jonquille: L'odorat et l'imaginaire social, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles, 1982
- Translation: The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination, (published 1988)
- Le cloches de la terre: Paysage sonore et culture sensible dans les campagnes au XIXe siècle, 1994
- Translation: Village bells: Sound and Meaning in the 19th-century French Countryside, (published 1998)
- Le temps, le désir et l'horreur, 1995
- Translation: Time, Desire, and Horror: Towards a History of the Senses, (published 1995)
- Le monde retrouvé de Louis-François Pinagot: Sur les traces d'un inconnu (1798-1876), 1998
- Translation: The Life of an Unknown: The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-century France, (published 2001)
- Histoire du silence: de la Renaissance à nos jours, 2018
- Translation: A History of Silence: From the Renaissance to the Present Day, (published 2018)
Bibliography[]
- For a general overview on his work, see S. Godfrey "Alain Corbin : Making Sense of French History », French Historical Studies, vol. 25, n° 2, 2002, p. 381-398
- See also Dominique kalifa, "L’expérience, le désir et l’histoire. Alain Corbin ou le tournant culturel silencieux", in “Alain Corbin and the writing of History”, French Politics, Culture & Society, vol. 22, n° 2, 2004, p. 14-25.
References[]
- ^ « Mon village natal se nomme Lonlay-l’Abbaye » Réforme "Les parfums de la mémoire" Archived 2008-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Godfrey, Simon (2006), "Alain Corbin", The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought, New York: Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0-231-10790-7
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