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The University of Chicago Press, University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Pages
317

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Subjects
Literature and revolutions, History, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799
Places
France
Times
Revolution, 1789-1799

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Table of Contents

A revolution in literary studies
Precursors
On revolutionary fiction: definitions
Significance for readers of 1789-1803
Significance for readers of our time
From fish seller to suffragist: the women's march on Versailles
Introduction
The anxiety of ambivalence: journalism of october 1789
Poissard and amazonian pamphletry
The poissarde's cultural heritage
Fictions of amazonian ambition
Coda: how the fish seller became a suffragist, thanks to L. Frank Baum
The Frankenstein of the French revolution
Introduction
Legislating invention in 1790-91
Inventors and inventions in the public eye
An object lesson on automaton politics
The automaton between le miroir and Frankenstein: Condorcet, Doppet and Hoffmann
Coda: Frankenstein's creature in the mechanical mold
The once and only pitiful king
Introduction
Part one: Varennes
Part two: les adieux
Coda: how fatherhood failed the king, according to Balzac
How literature ended the terror
Introduction
The revolutionary tribunal
Prisoners' tales
Crime narratives
Coda: how literature ended the terror
In guise of a conclusion.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chicago, London

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Dewey Decimal Class
809.3/93584404
Library of Congress
DC158.8 .D59 2012, DC158.8.D59 2012

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p. cm.
Number of pages
317

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OL25140306M
ISBN 10
0226160580
ISBN 13
9780226160580
LCCN
2011050822
OCLC/WorldCat
768607373

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