The Satiric Decade: Satire and the Rise of Republican Political Culture in France, 1830-1840

by Amy Weise Forbes

Overview

Where do democratic political practices originate? This issue has long concerned republics, but few historians have studied the process by which people learn the skills of rights-based government. In this illuminating history, Amy Wiese Forbes addresses these origins by analyzing how republicanism took shape through the political satire that flooded French newspapers, theaters, courtrooms, and even academic life in 1830. Forbes shows that satire was the chief source of the critical spirit of republicanism that erupted in the 1840s and sustained the Republic in the 1870s and argues against the notion that satire had no lasting political impact. This book will speak to historians of French politics, republicanism, popular culture, the July Monarchy, satire and political humor, class and gender formation, and legal history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739143278
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	12/22/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	238
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Amy Wiese Forbes is associate professor of history and director of European studies at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.

Table of Contents

1 Table of Contents
2 List of Figures
3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Introduction
Chapter 5 1. Conspiracy
Chapter 6 2. Legality
Chapter 7 3. Fraud
Chapter 8 4. Imposture
Chapter 9 5. Charivari
Chapter 10 6. Absurdity
Chapter 11 Conclusion
12 Bibliography
13 Index
14 About the Author