The French Revolution in culture and society
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The French Revolution in culture and society
(Contributions to the study of world history, no. 23)
Greenwood Press, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume examines the issue of the timing of cultural change, problems of Revolutionary anticipations and reverberations, and the relationship between culture, politics, and society. Individual essays combine both old and new approaches, ranging from textual analysis to the study of local judicial records, from the psychohistorical to the demographic. But they all demonstrate the usefulness of linking social and cultural history, broadly conceived, and of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of events.
Part One addresses directly the creation of French Revolutionary culture. The contributors describe the physical act of dismantling and redefining the culture of the Ancien Regime for revolutionary purposes, new conceptions of time, and generation relations in Revolutionary rhetoric and law. The second part identifies key cultural ingredients from the distant past. It reminds us of the extent to which the Revolution employed the huge storehouse of Western culture to create something original. Because the creation of a democratic culture implies a crisis of consciousness, Part Three brings together a range of investigations into the question of cultural crisis. Three essays see the Revolutionary era as engendering psychological dislocation. In Part Four, social historians reveal the variety of approaches they have taken in trying to understand eighteenth century France. The varied contributions exploit the sources that have become the stock-in-trade of modern social history. Poverty, crime, and population are among the leading topics in current historiography, but military and political institutions are also examined in new ways. This edited collection provides new insights into a critical period of world history and will be welcomed by all scholars of the French Revolution and its aftermath.
Table of Contents
Preface by Norwood Andrews, Jr. and Alfred Cismaru Introduction by David G. Troyansky Creating a Revolutionary Culture The King's Two Bodies: Monuments, Mausoleums, and Museums of the French Revolution by Emmet Kennedy Gilbert Romme and the Making of the French Republican Calendar by James Friguglietti Generational Discourse in the French Revolution by David G. Troyansky Ingredients from the Distant Past History Recreated or Malfunctioned Desire? The Roman Republic Re-membered in the French Revolution by David H. J. Larmour Ecclesiological Insights at the 1790 National Assembly: An Assessment of the Contribution of Catholic Thought to the French Revolution by Roland G. Bonnel Revolutionary Politics and Revolutionary Culture: Shakespeare in France, 1789-1815 by Matthew Ramsey Crisis in Culture: Pre- and Postrevolutionary La Faute a Figaro? by Jean-Yves Guerin Gothic Sexuality and Social Decay in Diderot and Sade by Susan B. Grayson Romanticism and the Revolution of 1789: A Psychohistorical View by Rudolph Binion Gender-rising the Revolution: La Duchesse de Langeais by Carl D. Weiner The Social Context of Cultural Revolution The French Army's Budget in the Eighteenth Century: A Retreat from Loyalty by Claude C. Sturgill Change, Continuity, and the French Revolution: Elite Discourse on Mendicity, 1750-1815 by William J. Olejniczak Ancien REgime Justice and the Revolution: A Local Study by Julius R. Ruff Ritualized Violence in Eighteenth-Century Perigord by Steven G. Reinhardt Political Revolution and Contraceptive Revolution by Jean-Pierre Bardet Bibliography Index
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