Alain Corbin

Alain Corbin (born January 12, 1936, 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 miasme et la jonquille: L'odorat et l'imaginaire social, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles 
    • Translation: The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination (published 1988)
  • Le territoire du vide: L'occident et le désir du rivage (1750-1840) 
  • Le cloches de la terre: Paysage sonore et culture sensible dans les campagnes au XIXe siècle 
    • Translation: Sound and Meaning in the Village Bells, (published 1998)
  • Le monde retrouvé de Louis-François Pinagot: Sur les traces d'un inconnu (1798-1876) 
    • Translation: The Life of an Unknown, (published 2001)

Bibliography

References

  1. « Mon village natal se nomme Lonlay-l’Abbaye » Réforme "Les parfums de la mémoire"
  2. 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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