
Fragments of Revolution
Yale University Press
Published on 10. June 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
230 pages
978-0-300-09238-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is the 101st volume in the "Yale French Studies" series. Divided into three sections on "Material Strategies", "Narrative Tactics" and "Alternative Negotiations", it features essays on topics such as: "Freedom's Missed Moment"; "Mothers in Revolution"; and more.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations, ports.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 154 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-09238-7 (9780300092387)
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Content
Editors' Preface Howard G. Lay and Caroline Weber I. Material Strategies Caroline Weber Freedom's Missed Moment Erika Naginski The Object of Contempt Jeannene Przybkyski Revolution at a Standstill: Philosophy and the Paris Commune of 1871 Howard G. Lay Beau geste! II. Narrative Tactics Darrin M. McMahon Narratives of Dystopia in the French Revolution: Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and the Isle de Philosophes of the Abbe Balthazard Peter Brooks Balzac: Epistemophilia and the Collapse of the Restoration Debarati Sanyal The Tie that Binds: Violent Commerce in Baudelaire's "La corde" III. Alternative Negotiations Richard Terdiman Political Fictions: Revolutionary Deconstruction in Diderot Jennifer Jones Personals and Politics: Courting la citoyenne in 'Le courrier de l'hymen' Jean-Marie Roulin Mothers in Revolution Darey Grimaldo Grigsby Revolutionary Sons, White Fathers, and Creole Difference: Guillaume-Lethieres' "Oath of the Ancestors" (1822)