Representing the French Revolution: Literature, Historiography, and Art
Why is the anniversary of the French Revolution celebrated on July 14, the day the Bastille was stormed, rather than on August 26, the day the Declaration of the Rights of Man was signed? Why don't the French do as the Americans, who see their revolution epitomized by the signing of the Declaration of Independence? "There is surely something to be learned from contemplating the difference between these two ways of representing a revolution," writes James Heffernan. In this volume, he and 13...
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PrefaceIThe View from EnglandRevolution in Language: Burke's Representation of Linguistic Terror3Blake, Violence, and Visionary Politics24History and Autobiography: The French Revolution in Wordsworth's Prelude41"Such a Figure Drew Priam's Curtains!": Carlyle's Epic History of the Revolution63IICrossing the Channel: Revolutionary France in French MirrorsMichelet and the French Revolution81Icon and Symbol: The Historical Figure Called Maximilien Robespierre106Representing the Body Politic: Fictions of the State123Performing Arts: Theatricality and the Terror135The Rights and Wrongs of Woman: The Defeat of Feminist Rhetoric by Revolutionary Allegory150Swordplay: Jacques-Louis David's Painting of Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau on His Deathbed169Obscene Humor in French Revolutionary Caricature: Jacques-Louis David's The Army of Jugs and The English Government192IIICrossing the Border: The French Revolution in the German ImaginationCrossing the Border: The French Revolution in the German Literary Imagination213IVCrossing the Ocean: The French Revolution in the Caribbean ImaginationHaiti's Tragic Overture: (Mis)Representations of the Haitian Revolution in World Drama (1796-1975)237Carpentier's Enlightened Revolution, Goya's Sleep of Reason261Notes on Contributors277Index279
