Libby Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Libby Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Libby |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oberlin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Art of Survival
An astute literary and cultural history of World War I in France that offers a fresh perspective on the popular culture of the Great War The First World War soldier has often been depicted as a helpless victim sacrificed by a ruthless society in the trenches of the Western Front. In fact, Libby Murphy reveals, French soldiers drew upon a long-standing European tradition to imagine themselves not as heroes or victims but as survivors. Murphy inves…
Mary Lynn Stewart. Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910–1940
Scholars interested in French journalism will find a much-needed source in Mary Lynn Stewart’s Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910–1940. This study of French newspaper women fills a scholarly gap in book-length histories of French journalism, which don’t focus on women, and of French women journalists, which don’t focus on the daily press. It also complements scholarship on British and American women journalists. The book provides …
Lucky to be here
“Lucky to be here”: How the French Fashion Industry Keeps its Workers Underpaid, Overworked, and Coming Back for More - Giulia Mensitieri, Le Plus Beau Métier du monde: dans les coulisses de l’industrie de la mode (Paris, Éditions de la Découverte, 2018) - Volume 60 Issue 3
Art of Survival
The Art of Survival
The Art of Survival: France and the Great War Picaresque is a new literary and cultural history of the First World War in France. It offers readers a fresh perspective on wartime popular culture, uncovering the attitudes and outlooks of the people who lived through the war one hundred years ago. The book develops a counternarrative to postwar interpretations of the infantryman as passive victim or active resister, focusing instead on the mechanis…
Art of Survival
The First World War soldier has often been depicted as a helpless victim sacrificed by a ruthless society in the trenches of the Western Front. In fact, Libby Murphy reveals, French soldiers drew upon a long-standing European tradition to imagine themselves not as heroes or victims but as survivors. Murphy investigates how infantrymen and civilians attempted to make sense of the war while it was still in progress by reviving the picaresque, a lit…
Georges de la Fouchardière
A brief history ofLe Système D
This article traces the development of the French and Francophone concept of Le Système D from its origins in the colonial army in North Africa in the mid-nineteenth century, to its uses and abuses during the two world wars, to its contemporary use in the context of informal economies worldwide. La débrouillardise and its many derivatives (se débrouiller, débrouillard, and Le Système D) are central to the French and Francophone cultural imaginati…
Charlot franÇais
Gavroche and the Great War
This article describes the use of soldier Gouaille or cocky humour in the construction of a consensual typology of the French infantry soldier (Poilu) of the First World War. Drawing on a variety of nineteenth-century literary models, including that of the gamin de Paris, Great War novelists depicted the Poilu as a clever, resourceful, Parisian working-class grumbler and joker. In so doing, they created a model of soldier heroism and of republica…
Gavroche and the Great War
This article describes the use of soldier Gouaille or cocky humour in the construction of a consensual typology of the French infantry soldier (Poilu) of the First World War. Drawing on a variety of nineteenth-century literary models, including that of the gamin de Paris, Great War novelists depicted the Poilu as a clever, resourceful, Parisian working-class grumbler and joker. In so doing, they created a model of soldier heroism and of republica…
Charlot franÇais
A brief history ofLe Système D
This article traces the development of the French and Francophone concept of Le Système D from its origins in the colonial army in North Africa in the mid-nineteenth century, to its uses and abuses during the two world wars, to its contemporary use in the context of informal economies worldwide. La débrouillardise and its many derivatives (se débrouiller, débrouillard, and Le Système D) are central to the French and Francophone cultural imaginati…
The Art of Survival
The Art of Survival: France and the Great War Picaresque is a new literary and cultural history of the First World War in France. It offers readers a fresh perspective on wartime popular culture, uncovering the attitudes and outlooks of the people who lived through the war one hundred years ago. The book develops a counternarrative to postwar interpretations of the infantryman as passive victim or active resister, focusing instead on the mechanis…
Art of Survival
The First World War soldier has often been depicted as a helpless victim sacrificed by a ruthless society in the trenches of the Western Front. In fact, Libby Murphy reveals, French soldiers drew upon a long-standing European tradition to imagine themselves not as heroes or victims but as survivors. Murphy investigates how infantrymen and civilians attempted to make sense of the war while it was still in progress by reviving the picaresque, a lit…
Georges de la Fouchardière
Art of Survival
Mary Lynn Stewart. Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910–1940
Scholars interested in French journalism will find a much-needed source in Mary Lynn Stewart’s Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910–1940. This study of French newspaper women fills a scholarly gap in book-length histories of French journalism, which don’t focus on women, and of French women journalists, which don’t focus on the daily press. It also complements scholarship on British and American women journalists. The book provides …
Lucky to be here
“Lucky to be here”: How the French Fashion Industry Keeps its Workers Underpaid, Overworked, and Coming Back for More - Giulia Mensitieri, Le Plus Beau Métier du monde: dans les coulisses de l’industrie de la mode (Paris, Éditions de la Découverte, 2018) - Volume 60 Issue 3
The Art of Survival
An astute literary and cultural history of World War I in France that offers a fresh perspective on the popular culture of the Great War The First World War soldier has often been depicted as a helpless victim sacrificed by a ruthless society in the trenches of the Western Front. In fact, Libby Murphy reveals, French soldiers drew upon a long-standing European tradition to imagine themselves not as heroes or victims but as survivors. Murphy inves…
Art (6 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact (3 works) · 1914-1918 (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)