Ernest Renan: Select Bibliography


Blix, G. “Charting the 'Transitional Period': The Emergence of Modern Time in the Nineteenth Century” History and Theory Volume 45, Issue 1 (2006): 51-71 [Available online through Academic Search Premier]

Chadbourne, Richard M. Ernest Renan as an essayist. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1957.

Chadbourne, Richard M. Ernest Renan. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1968.

Coates, John. “Renan and Pater's Marius the Epicurean” Comparative Literature Studies Volume 37, Issue 4 (2000): 402-23 [Available online through Project Muse]

Dörries, Matthias.  Ernest Renan, a Prophet in a Scientific Age. Leipzig: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2000.

Espinasse, Francis.  Life of Ernest Renan London: Walter Scott Limited, 1895 [Full Text Available on Googlebooks]

Fowlie, Wallace. “Remembering Renan” American Scholar Volume 58, Issue 2 (1989): 245-257 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Gratry, A. Jesus Christ: A Reply to M. Renan [in his Vie de Jesus]. London: Richard and Son, 1868 [Full Text Available on Googlebooks]

Johnstone, Michael. “Truth has a Human Face” Victorian Poetry Volume 38, Issue 3 (2000): 365-381.

Lee, David.  Ernest Renan: In the Shadow of Faith. London: Duckworth, 1996.

Mott, Lewis F. Ernest Renan New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1921 [Full Text Available on Googlebooks]

Pitt, Alan. “The Cultural Impact of Science in France: Ernest Renan and the 'Vie de Jesus'” Historical Journal Volume 43, Issue 1 (2000): 79-10 [Available online through JSTOR]

Prickett, Stephen. “Matthew Arnold and Ernest Renan” Franco-British Studies: Journal of the British Institute in Paris Volume 16, Issue 1(1993): 1-11.

Reardon, Bernard M.G. “Ernest Renan and the Religion of Science” The Critical Spirit and the Will to Believe: Essays in Nineteenth Century Literature and Religion. Jasper, David, Wright, T.R., eds. New York: St. Martin's, 1989. 239 pp.

Shapiro, Gary. “Nietzsche Contra Renan” History & Theory Volume 21, Issue 2 (1982): 193-222 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Smith, Colin. “Renan's Final Cosmology” Forum for Modern Language Studies Volume 14, Issue 1 (1978): 231-46 [Available online through Periodicals Archive Online]

Stevenson, David R. “Ernest Renan: Anachronism or Precursor?” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History Volume 1, Issue 1 (1973): 225-239.

Wardman, Harold W. Ernest Renan: A critical biography. London: Athlone Press, 1964.

Zeller, Edward. Strauss and Renan: An Essay. London: Trubner & Co., 1866 [Full Text Available on Googlebooks]

 
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