ISBN:
0226160580
,
9780226160580
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 317 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
DDC:
809.3/93584404
Keywords:
Literature and revolutions
;
France History Revolution, 1789-1799
;
Literature and revolutions
;
France
;
France
;
History
;
Revolution, 1789-1799
;
Französisch
;
Literatur
;
Französische Revolution
;
Geschichte 1789-1794
;
Frankreich
;
Revolution
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte 1789-1794
Description / Table of Contents:
A revolution in literary studies -- Precursors -- On revolutionary fiction: definitions -- Significance for readers of 1789-1803 -- Significance for readers of our time -- From fish seller to suffragist: the women's march on Versailles -- Introduction -- The anxiety of ambivalence: journalism of october 1789 -- Poissard and amazonian pamphletry -- The poissarde's cultural heritage -- Fictions of amazonian ambition -- Coda: how the fish seller became a suffragist, thanks to L. Frank Baum -- The Frankenstein of the French revolution -- Introduction -- Legislating invention in 1790-91 -- Inventors and inventions in the public eye -- An object lesson on automaton politics -- The automaton between le miroir and Frankenstein: Condorcet, Doppet and Hoffmann -- Coda: Frankenstein's creature in the mechanical mold -- The once and only pitiful king -- Introduction -- Part one: Varennes -- Part two: les adieux -- Coda: how fatherhood failed the king, according to Balzac -- How literature ended the terror -- Introduction -- The revolutionary tribunal -- Prisoners' tales -- Crime narratives -- Coda: how literature ended the terror -- In guise of a conclusion.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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