Author : Pamela Clemit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521516072
The first major collection of essays to provide a comprehensive examination of the British literature of the French Revolution.
Author : Tonya J. Moutray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317069315
In eighteenth-century literature, negative representations of Catholic nuns and convents were pervasive. Yet, during the politico-religious crises initiated by the French Revolution, a striking literary shift took place as British writers championed the cause of nuns, lauded their socially relevant work, and addressed the attraction of the convent for British women. Interactions with Catholic religious, including priests and nuns, Tonya J Moutray argues, motivated writers, including Hester Thrale Piozzi, Helen Maria Williams, and Charlotte Smith, to revaluate the historical and contemporary utility of religious refugees. Beyond an analysis of literary texts, Moutray's study also examines nuns’ personal and collective narratives, as well as news coverage of their arrival to England, enabling a nuanced investigation of a range of issues, including nuns' displacement and imprisonment in France, their rhetorical and practical strategies to resist authorities, representations of refugee migration to and resettlement in England, relationships with benefactors and locals, and the legal status of "English" nuns and convents in England, including their work in recruitment and education. Moutray shows how writers and the media negotiated the multivalent figure of the nun during the 1790s, shaping British perceptions of nuns and convents during a time critical to their survival.
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author : Seamus Deane
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674322400
Author : Robert Darnton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195144511
The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous Encyclop die, repository of reason and knowledge, to scandal-mongering libel and pornography. Historian and librarian Robert Darnton uses his exclusive access to a trove of documents-letters and documents from authors, publishers, printers, paper millers, type founders, ink manufacturers, smugglers, wagon drivers, warehousemen, and accountants-involving a publishing house in the Swiss town of Neuchatel to bring this world to life. Like other places on the periphery of France, Switzerland was a hotbed of piracy, carefully monitoring the demand for certain kinds of books and finding ways of fulfilling it. Focusing in particular on the diary of Jean-Fran ois Favarger, a traveling sales rep for a Swiss firm whose 1778 voyage, on horseback and on foot, around France to visit bookstores and renew accounts forms the spine of this story, Darnton reveals not only how the industry worked and which titles were in greatest demand, but the human scale of its operations. A Literary Tour de France is literally that. Darnton captures the hustle, picaresque comedy, and occasional risk of Favarger's travels in the service of books, and in the process offers an engaging, immersive, and unforgettable narrative of book culture at a critical moment in France's history.
Author : Ian Davidson
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1847659365
The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this violent and random act was unrepresentative of the real work of the early revolution, which was taking place ten miles west of Paris, in Versailles. There, the nobles, clergy and commoners of France had just declared themselves a republic, toppling a rotten system of aristocratic privilege and altering the course of history forever. The Revolution was led not by angry mobs, but by the best and brightest of France's growing bourgeoisie: young, educated, ambitious. Their aim was not to destroy, but to build a better state. In just three months they drew up a Declaration of the Rights of Man, which was to become the archetype of all subsequent Declarations worldwide, and they instituted a system of locally elected administration for France which still survives today. They were determined to create an entirely new system of government, based on rights, equality and the rule of law. In the first three years of the Revolution they went a long way toward doing so. Then came Robespierre, the Terror and unspeakable acts of barbarism. In a clear, dispassionate and fast-moving narrative, Ian Davidson shows how and why the Revolutionaries, in just five years, spiralled from the best of the Enlightenment to tyranny and the Terror. The book reminds us that the Revolution was both an inspiration of the finest principles of a new democracy and an awful warning of what can happen when idealism goes wrong.
Author : Mark Philp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 37,8 MB
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521890939
The nine essays in this collection focus on the dynamics of British popular politics in the 1790s and on the impact of the French Revolution and the subsequent war with France. Leading scholars in the field explore the nature and origins of the ideological conflicts between reformers and loyalists, the impact of the war with France on the organisation of the British state and on its relations with its people, and the extent of the threat of revolution on both British and colonial territory. The French Revolution and British Popular Politics makes an unusually integrated and coherent collection of essays, substantially advancing knowledge in this controversial area and bringing together important work by senior figures in the field.
Author : Denis Hollier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674615663
An introduction to the history of French literature, covering from 842 to 1990.
Author : Allene Gregory
Publisher :
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
CONTENTS Introduction - On the Economic Interpretation of Literature Backgrounds A Representative Revolutionist Revolutionary Philosophers Some Opponents of the Revolutionary Philosophers Revolutionists and Radicals of Various Degrees Some Typical Lady Novelists of the Revolution The French Revolution and the Rights of Woman Some Other Forms of Literature Affected by the French Revolution Conclusions Appendix - Lists of Plays Showing Tendencies Influenced by the French Revolution Bibliography Index
Author : Olivier Blanc
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 14,48 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :
