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by John R. Jeanneney, Gail M. Schwab. 374 pgs.

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Table of contents
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction Gail M. Schwab and John R. Jeanneney xi
1. Providence for the Revolutionary People Erica Joy Mannucci 1
2. Writing Revolution: Michelet's History of the French Revolution Tom Conner 13
3. Sexual Politics: Marivaux's La Colonie Jeanne Fuchs 23
4. Cazotte and the Counterrevolution or the Art of Losing One's Head Claudine Hunting 33
5. The Concept of Virtue in Literature and Politics During the French Revolution of 1789: Sade and Robespierre Gislinde Seybert 51
6. Mme. De Staël: Comparative Politics as Revolutionary Practice Susan Tenenbaum 61
7. Revolution in the Boudoir: Mme. Roland's Subversion of Rousseau's Feminine Ideals Mary Trouille 69
8. French Women Writers and the Revolution: Preliminary Thoughts Catherine R. Montfort 95
9. The Sublimity of Speech as Action: The Myth of Mirabeau, 1791-1848 Patricia A. Ward 105
10. French Theater and Revolution: The Eve and the Aftermath Mario Hamlet-Metz 115
11. Rewriting the Revolutionary Past in Les Prussiens en Lorraine Barbara T. Cooper 125
12. Prosper Mérimée Is Thinking the Revolution Evlyn Gould 135
13. Georges Sorel and the "Dreyfusard Revolution" Jeffrey Mehlman 147
14. Revolution in the Education sentimentale: Structure, Theory and History Gail M. Schwab 157
15. Cities, Bourgeois, and the French Revolution Charles Tilly 169
16. The Nobility's New Clothes: Revisionism and the Survival of the Nobility During the French Revolution John Dunne 181
17. The Rights of Man and the Right to Vote: The Franchise Question During the French Revolution Malcolm Crook 191
18. Aux Urnes, Citoyens! The Transformation of French Electoral Participation (1789-1870) Melvin Edelstein 199
19. The Impact of the French Revolution on London Reform Societies Marilyn Morris 209
20. The French Revolution and Spain Richard Herr 219
21. Republican Revolution or Absolutist Reform? Uffe Østergaard 227
22. The French Revolution of 1789 and its Impact on Spanish-American Independence Gregory Ludlow 257
23. Waves Breaking on a Distant Shore: Puerto Rico in the Era of the French Revolution Julia Ortiz Griffin 265
24. The Influence of the French Revolution on Lenin's Conception of the Russian Revolution George Jackson 273
25. Uses of the Past: Bolshevism and the French Revolutionary Tradition Gabriel Schoenfeld 285
26. Marianne Revisited: Anti-Republican Political Caricature, 1880-1900 Willa Z. Silverman 305
27. The Lost Legacy of the French Revolution and the Persecution of French Jewry in Vichy France Sondra M. Rubenstein 337
Index 355
About the Editors and Contributors 367
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