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Representing the French Revolution, literature, historiography, and art, edited by James A.W. Heffernan

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

government publication level undetermined

illustrationsplates

index present

non fiction

Representing the French Revolution

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edited by James A.W. Heffernan

literature, historiography, and art

Contents: Revolution in language : Burke's representation of linguistic terror / Steven Blakemore -- Blake, violence, and visionary politics / William Keach -- History and autobiography : the French Revolution in Wordsworth's Prelude / James A.W. Heffernan -- "Such a figure drew Priam's curtains!" : Carlyle's epic history of the Revolution / Mark Cumming -- Michelet and the French Revolution / Lionel Gossman -- Icon and symbol : the historical figure called Maximilien Robespierre / Ann Rigney -- Representing the body politic : fictions of the State / Carol Blum -- Performing arts : theatricality and the Terror / Marie-Hélène Huet -- The rights and wrongs of woman : the defeat of feminist rhetoric by revolutionary allegory / Madelyn Gutwirth -- Swordplay : Jacques-Louis David's painting of Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau on his deathbed / Donna M. HunterContents: (cont.) Obscene humor in French revolutionary caricature : Jacques-Louis David's The army of jugs and The English Government / James Cuno -- Crossing the Border : The French Revolution in the German literary imagination / Susanne Zantop -- Haiti's tragic overture : (mis)representations of the Haitian Revolution in world drama (1796-1975) / VèVè A. Clark -- Carpentier's enlightened revolution, Goya's Sleep of reason / Beatriz Pastor