Representing the French Revolution : literature, historiography, and art /
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| Imprint: | Hanover, New Hampshire : University Press of New England, c1992. |
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| Description: | xv, 286 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1306940 |
Table of Contents:
- I. The View from England. Revolution in Language: Burke's Representation of Linguistic Terror / Steven Blakemore. Blake, Violence, and Visionary Politics / William Keach. History and Autobiography: The French Revolution in Wordsworth's Prelude / James A. W. Heffernan. "Such a Figure Drew Priam's Curtains!": Carlyle's Epic History of the Revolution / Mark Cumming
- II. Crossing the Channel: Revolutionary France in French Mirrors. Michelet and the French Revolution / Lionel Gossman. Icon and Symbol: The Historical Figure Called Maximilien Robespierre / Ann Rigney. Representing the Body Politic: Fictions of the State / Carol Blum. Performing Arts: Theatricality and the Terror / Marie-Helene Huet. The Rights and Wrongs of Woman: The Defeat of Feminist Rhetoric by Revolutionary Allegory / Madelyn Gutwirth. Swordplay: Jacques-Louis David's Painting of Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau on His Deathbed / Donna M. Hunter. Obscene Humor in French Revolutionary Caricature: Jacques-Louis David's The Army of Jugs and The English Government / James Cuno
- III. Crossing the Border: The French Revolution in the German Imagination. Crossing the Border: The French Revolution in the German Literary Imagination / Susanne Zantop
- IV. Crossing the Ocean: The French Revolution in the Caribbean Imagination. Haiti's Tragic Overture: (Mis)Representations of the Haitian Revolution in World Drama (1796-1975) / VeVe A. Clark. Carpentier's Enlightened Revolution, Goya's Sleep of Reason / Beatriz Pastor.