The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact
The essays in this collection, drawn from a Hofstra University bicentennial conference on the French Revolution, seek to come to terms, often from conflicting points of view, with the complex relationship between events and their representations. The question 'How did the lived experience that eventually became known as the French Revolution come to be organized?' provides a common thread for the collection. Individual chapters examine the Revolution from the vantage points of theology and philosophy, theater and literature, as well as politics and history.

As the contributors show, the French Revolution was more than a series of political events that took place in one European country at the end of the 18th century. Instead, it was a trans-historical, multi-national, and multi-cultural discourse. It served as a point of reference by which and through which a complex of cultural values and styles could be defined, and as a model (even a negative model) for the elaboration of ideologies, and of political and administrative strategies for bureaucracies around the world. An invaluable collection for all students of the Revolution and its impact.

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The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact
The essays in this collection, drawn from a Hofstra University bicentennial conference on the French Revolution, seek to come to terms, often from conflicting points of view, with the complex relationship between events and their representations. The question 'How did the lived experience that eventually became known as the French Revolution come to be organized?' provides a common thread for the collection. Individual chapters examine the Revolution from the vantage points of theology and philosophy, theater and literature, as well as politics and history.

As the contributors show, the French Revolution was more than a series of political events that took place in one European country at the end of the 18th century. Instead, it was a trans-historical, multi-national, and multi-cultural discourse. It served as a point of reference by which and through which a complex of cultural values and styles could be defined, and as a model (even a negative model) for the elaboration of ideologies, and of political and administrative strategies for bureaucracies around the world. An invaluable collection for all students of the Revolution and its impact.

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The essays in this collection, drawn from a Hofstra University bicentennial conference on the French Revolution, seek to come to terms, often from conflicting points of view, with the complex relationship between events and their representations. The question 'How did the lived experience that eventually became known as the French Revolution come to be organized?' provides a common thread for the collection. Individual chapters examine the Revolution from the vantage points of theology and philosophy, theater and literature, as well as politics and history.

As the contributors show, the French Revolution was more than a series of political events that took place in one European country at the end of the 18th century. Instead, it was a trans-historical, multi-national, and multi-cultural discourse. It served as a point of reference by which and through which a complex of cultural values and styles could be defined, and as a model (even a negative model) for the elaboration of ideologies, and of political and administrative strategies for bureaucracies around the world. An invaluable collection for all students of the Revolution and its impact.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313293399
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/27/1995
Series: Contributions to the Study of World History , #44
Pages: 392
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.88(d)
Lexile: 1510L (what's this?)

About the Author

GAIL M. SCHWAB is Associate Professor of French at Hofstra University. She has published on Flaubert and the feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray.

JOHN R. JEANNENEY is Associate Professor of History at Hofstra University. His publications are focused on the history of European public policies of natural resource management.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction by Gail M. Schwab and John R. Jeanneney
Providence for the Revolutionary People by Erica Joy Mannucci
Writing Revolution: Michelet's History of the French Revolution by Tom Conner
Sexual Politics: Marivaux's "La Colonie" by Jeanne Fuchs
"CAZOTTE" and the COUNTER-REVOLUTION or the Art of Losing One's Head by Claudine Hunting
The Concept of Virtue in Literature and Politics during the French Revolution of 1789: Sade and Robespierre by Gislinde Seybert
Mme. De StAËl: Comparative Politics as Revolutionary Practice by Susan Tenenbaum
Revolution in the Boudoir: Mme. Roland's Subversion of Rousseau's Feminine Ideals by Mary Trouille
French Women Writers and the Revolution: Preliminary Thoughts by Catherine R. Montfort
The Sublimity of Speech as Action: The Myth of Mirabeau, 1791-1848 by Patricia A. Ward
French Theater and Revolution: The Eve and the Aftermath by Mario Hamlet-Metz
Rewriting the Revolutionary Past in Les Prussiens en Lorraine by Barbara T. Cooper
Prosper Mérimée is Thinking the Revolution by Evelyn Gould
Georges Sorel and the "Dreyfusard Revolution" by Jeffrey Mehlman
Revolution in the Education sentimentale: Structure, Theory, and History by Gail M. Schwab
Cities, Bourgeois, and the French Revolution by Charles Tilly
The Nobility's New Clothes: Revisionism and the Survival of the Nobility during the French Revolution by John Dunne
Suffrage and Citizenship in the French Revolution by Malcolm Crook
AUX URNES, CITOYENS! The Transformation of French Electoral Participation (1789-1870) by Melvin Edelstein
The Impact of the French Revolution on London Reform Societies by Marilyn Morris
The French Revolution and Spain by Richard Herr
Republican Revolution or Absolutist Reform? by Uffe Ostergaard
The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact on Spanish-American Independence by Gregory Ludlow
Waves Breaking on a Distant Shore: Puerto Rico in the Era of the French Revolution by Julia Ortiz Griffin
The Influence of the French Revolution on Lenin's Conception of the Russian Revolution by George Jackson
Uses of the Past: Bolshevism and the French Revolutionary Tradition by Gabriel Schoenfeld
Marianne Revisited: Anti-Republican Political Caricature, 1880-1900 by Willa Z. Silverman
The Lost Legacy of the French Revolution and the Persecution of French Jewry in Vichy France by Sondra M. Rubenstein
Index

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