The Body and the French Revolution
Author: Dorinda Outram
Publisher:
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780300044362
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The Body and the French Revolution
Author: Dorinda Outram
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-02-06
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1000534596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 1989, is an analysis of what changed in 1789 with the French Revolution and what contemporary life owes to the event. It was not simply a series of events with worldwide repercussions, but also represented the foundation of the middle-class domination of social, cultural and political space, which survives today and is the site of major crises of public culture. One such site is the body. In spite of its prominence in consumer culture as an object of adornment and beautification, the human body retains none of its historic dignity and authority. The argument of this book is that the French Revolution played a crucial part in this diminution of the body. It traces revolutionary models of behaviour around the body and public life, and explains how such myths as the division between public and private, male and female worlds, and such masculine values as ‘objectivity’ were an integral part of the new public world created by the revolutionary middle class.
Glory and Terror
Author: Antoine de Baecque
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1136692088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlory and Terror is a vivid and often gory history of the darker side of the French Revolution. Through an examination of contemporary visual and literary representations of executions, funerals, processions and ceremonies it brings the often horrific events of the time to life. Honing in on seven real life cases, the author recounts and interprets: * the public autopsy performed on the corpse of Mirabeau * the exhumation and transportation of Voltaire's body to the Pantheon * the public torture, murder and subsequent mutilation of the Princesse de Lamballe * the agonizingly slow death of Robespierre. Anyone who enjoys dazzling cultural history in the vein of Robert Darnton, Carlo Ginzburg and Anthony Grafton will revel in this intelligent and original work.
Modern France
Author: Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2011-10-10
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 0195389417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.
Inventing the French Revolution `
Author: Keith Michael Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-01-26
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780521385787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the question 'How did the French Revolution become thinkable?'.
Liberty or Death
Author: Peter McPhee
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-05-28
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 0300219504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA strinking account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime’s study of eighteenth-century France and Europe to create an entirely fresh account of the world’s first great modern revolution—its origins, drama, complexity, and significance. Was the Revolution a major turning point in French—even world—history, or was it instead a protracted period of violent upheaval and warfare that wrecked millions of lives? McPhee evaluates the Revolution within a genuinely global context: Europe, the Atlantic region, and even farther. He acknowledges the key revolutionary events that unfolded in Paris, yet also uncovers the varying experiences of French citizens outside the gates of the city: the provincial men and women whose daily lives were altered—or not—by developments in the capital. Enhanced with evocative stories of those who struggled to cope in unpredictable times, McPhee’s deeply researched book investigates the changing personal, social, and cultural world of the eighteenth century. His startling conclusions redefine and illuminate both the experience and the legacy of France’s transformative age of revolution. “McPhee…skillfully and with consummate clarity recounts one of the most complex events in modern history…. [This] extraordinary work is destined to be the standard account of the French Revolution for years to come.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
1789: The French Revolution Begins
Author: Robert H. Blackman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-08
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1108492444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive study of the complex events and debates through which the 1789 French National Assembly became a sovereign body.
The Body Politic
Author: Antoine de Baecque
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781503622562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a remarkable history of the French Revolution told through the study of images of the body as they appeared in the popular literature of the time, showing how these images were at the very center of the metaphoric language used to describe the revolution in progress. The author draws upon some 2,000 texts, pamphlets, announcements, opinions, accounts, treatises, and journals to exhume the textual reality of the Revolution, the body of its history. The deployment of bodily images--the degeneracy of the nobility, the impotence of the king, the herculean strength of the citizenry, the goddess of politics appearing naked like Truth, the bleeding wounds of the Republican martyrs--allowed political society to represent itself at a pivotal moment in its history. Searching for "the body of history," the author finds three forms of political representation: first, the metaphysical representation of the body as an anthropomorphic symbol of the political system--the transition of sovereignty from the body of the king to the great citizen body; second, the metaphorical representation of the body as a tool of discourse for persuasion--the embodied tale of the revolutionary epic; and third, the representation of the body in public ceremonies--street carnivals and funerals. The introductory chapter studies the symbolic defeat of the king's body and the transfer of virility to the Republican body. Later chapters examine the new patriotic body as described in medical terms; paintings by David that show the revolutionary hero as "political body"; the Revolutionary subject conceived in terms of regeneration; its opposite, the aristocratic body, conceived as monstrous; and the bestial images projected onto Marie Antoinette.
The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France
Author: Suzanne Desan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2006-06-19
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 0520248163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation A sophisticated and groundbreaking book on what women actually did and what actually happened to them during the French Revolution.
Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife
Author: Mechele Leon
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2009-10
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1587298910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1680 until the French Revolution, when legislation abolished restrictions on theatrical enterprise, a single theatre held sole proprietorship of Molière’s works. After 1791, his plays were performed in new theatres all over Paris by new actors, before audiences new to his works. Both his plays and his image took on new dimensions. In Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife, Mechele Leon convincingly demonstrates how revolutionaries challenged the ties that bound this preeminent seventeenth-century comic playwright to the Old Regime and provided him with a place of honor in the nation’s new cultural memory. Leon begins by analyzing the performance of Molière’s plays during the Revolution, showing how his privileged position as royal servant was disrupted by the practical conditions of the revolutionary theatre. Next she explores Molière’s relationship to Louis XIV, Tartuffe, and the social function of his comedy, using Rousseau’s famous critique of Molière as well as appropriations of George Dandin in revolutionary iconography to discuss how Moliérean laughter was retooled to serve republican interests. After examining the profusion of plays dealing with his life in the latter years of the Revolution, she looks at the exhumation of his remains and their reentombment as the tangible manifestation of his passage from Ancien Régime favorite to new national icon. The great Molière is appreciated by theatre artists and audiences worldwide, but for the French people it is no exaggeration to say that the Father of French Comedy is part of their national soul. By showing how he was represented, reborn, and reburied in the new France—how the revolutionaries asserted his relevance for their tumultuous time in ways that were audacious, irreverent, imaginative, and extreme—Leon clarifies the important role of theatrical figures in preserving and portraying a nation’s history.
