Burke and the French Revolution by Steven Blakemore (Editor)
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Publication Date: 1992-02-01
With the 1790 publication of Reflections on the revolution in France, Edmund Burke became the first prominent intellectual to question critically the French Revolution and its course. Published to (almost) coincide with the bicentennial of both the Revolution and Burke's antirevolutionary opus, this book features essays by six scholars who approach both subjects from a variety of perspectives and methodologies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France by Johnson Kent Wright
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Publication Date: 1997-06-01
This is an intellectual biography of Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-85), who emerges as a central figure in the history of republican thought in the era of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. This study sets forth a different reading of Mably's thought, one that shows him to be a classical republican, in the sense this term has acquired in recent years for students of early modern political thought. Mably was the author of the most comprehensive and influential body of republican thought produced in eighteenth-century France.
The Darnton debate: books and revolution in the eighteenth century by Haydn Trevor Mason
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The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon by Robert Darnton
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Publication Date: 2009-10-30
A ragtag group of literary libelers flooded the market with works that purported to expose the wicked behavior of the great including the unpopular foreign-born queen. These libels often mixed scandal with detailed accounts of contemporary history and current politics. And though they are now largely forgotten, many sold as well as or better than some of the most famous works of the Enlightenment. The Devil in the Holy Water has much to tell us about the nature of authorship and the book trade, about Grub Street journalism and the shaping of public opinion, and about the important work that scurrilous words have done.
Ecrire la Révolution, 1789-1799 by Béatrice Didier
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English Republican Tradition and Eighteenth-Century France by Rachel Hammersley
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Publication Date: 2010-09-15
The English Republican Tradition and Eighteenth-Century France offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth and eighteenth-century English republican ideas in eighteenth-century France. Challenging some of the dominant accounts of the republican tradition, it revises conventional understandings of what republicanism meant in both Britain and France during the eighteenth-century, offering a distinctive trajectory as regards ancient and modern constructions and highlighting variety rather than homogeneity within the tradition.
Fictions of the French Revolution by Bernadette Fort (Introduction by)
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Publication Date: 1991-08-01
French Drama of the Revolutionary Years by Graham E. Rodmell
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Publication Date: 1990-06-01
The French Revolution and the London Stage, 1789-1805 by George Taylor
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Publication Date: 2001-03-15
George Taylor looks at how British drama and popular entertainment were affected by the ideas and events of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. He argues that melodrama had its origins in this period, with certain Gothic villains displaying qualities attributed to Robespierre and Napoleon, and that recurrent images of incarceration and dispossession reflected fears of arbitrary persecution, from the tyranny of the Bastille to the Jacobin's Reign of Terror. By a cultural analysis of the popular entertainment and theatre performances of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Taylor reveals issues of ideological conflict and psychological stress.
Making the News in 18th-Century France by Stephane Roy
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ISBN: 9780770905545
Publication Date: 2012
"Long before the Internet and advent of “social media,” even before the invention of photography…prints played a key role in the creation of modern political culture: prints helped people grasp the essence and significance of newsworthy events both near and far.” With 40 catalogue entries and 43 illustrations documenting prints and rare books made in France from 1770 to 1820, this scholarly publication offers new insights on art and ideas in the era of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
A Modern Maistre by Owen Bradley
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Publication Date: 1999-08-01
"A Modern Maistre provides the first general account of the social and political thought of Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821), a founding author of Continental conservative philosophy. Commonly repudiated or ignored as an inconsistent and retrograde extremist, Maistre emerges on closer consideration as a subtle social theorist and a shaping force in modern intellectual history. Through his decisive effect upon Comte and Baudelaire, Maistre's influence far exceeds the narrow conservatism with which he is usually associated. Indeed, his critique of the Enlightenment bears an uncanny resemblance to central claims of postmodernist thought." "The guiding thread of Owen Bradley's analysis is Maistre's theory of sacrifice, a comparativist study of the ritualization of human barbarity in religious practices, punishments, wars, and revolutions."--BOOK JACKET.
The Other Enlightenment by Carla Alison Hesse; John Shepley
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Publication Date: 2001-09-10
The French Revolution created a new cultural world that freed women from the constraints of corporate privilege, aristocratic salons, and patriarchal censorship, even though it failed to grant them legal equality. Women burst into print in unprecedented numbers and became active participants in the great political, ethical, and aesthetic debates that gave birth to our understanding of the individual as a self-creating, self-determining agent.
Patriotes en scène : le Théâtre de la République, 1790-1799 : un épisode méconnu de l'histoire de la Comédie-Française
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Publication Date: 2007
This exhibition catalog documents the history of the Théâtre de la République, established by revolutionary authorities in 1790.
Postmodernism and the Enlightenment by Daniel Gordon (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2000-12-04
Why is postmodernist discourse so biased against the Enlightenment? Rather than avoiding this conflict, the contributors to this vibrant collection return to the philosophical roots of the Enlightenment, and do not hesitate to look at them through a postmodernist lens, engaging issues like anti-Semitism, Utopianism, colonial legal codes, and ideas of authorship.
Prelude to Power: the Parisian radical press, 1789-1791 by Jack Richard Censer
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Publication Date: 1976-11-01
Analyzes public opinion along with the radical press in Paris.
Pre-Revolutionary France by Robert Darnton
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Publication Date: 1995-03-01
Drawing on twenty-five years of research, Darnton reveals the illegal book trade in rich detail. He explores the cultural and political significance of these "bad" books and introduces readers to three of the most influential illegal best-sellers: Therese Philosophe, an anti-clerical blend of sex and metaphysics; L'An 2440, an attack on the Old Regime in the form of a utopian fantasy set in a future Paris; and Anecdotes sur Mme la comtesse du Barry, a deliciously scathing work of political slander with the king as its target. Substantial excerpts from these works, gathered at the end of the book, make excellent reading today and shed light on elements of our own political culture.
Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810 by Carla Hesse
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Publication Date: 1991-10-04
In 1789 French revolutionaries initiated a cultural experiment that radically transformed the most basic elements of French literary civilization--authorship, printing, and publishing. In a panoramic analysis, Carla Hesse tells how the Revolution shook the Parisian printing and publishing world from top to bottom, liberating the trade from absolutist institutions and inaugurating a free-market exchange of ideas.
Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution by Adriana Craciun (Editor); Kari E. Lokke (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2001-05-01
This collection of essays focuses on British women’s responses to the French Revolution and their participation in the social, economic, religious, and poetic debates surrounding this political conflict.
Representing the French Revolution by James A. Heffernan (Editor)
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Publication Date: 1992-04-01
Fourteen essays examine how the French Revolution has been represented in art, literature, and historical narratives from England, France, Germany, and the Caribbean.
A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution by William H. Sewell
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Publication Date: 1994-12-05
What Is the Third Estate?was the most influential pamphlet of 1789. It did much to set the French Revolution on a radically democratic course.
The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe by James Van Horn Melton; William Beik (Contribution by); T. C. W. Blanning (Contribution by); Brendan Simms (Contribution by)
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Publication Date: 2001-09-06
James Melton's lucid and accessible study examines the rise of 'the public' in eighteenth-century Europe. A work of comparative synthesis focusing on England, France and the German-speaking territories, this is the first book-length, critical reassessment of what Habermas termed the 'bourgeois public sphere'.