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The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact

by John R. Jeanneney, Gail M. Schwab

Pages: 374

Contributors: John R. Jeanneney,Gail M. Schwab

Publisher: Greenwood Press

Place of Publication: Westport, CT

Publication Year: 1995

Subjects: Social Change--Congresses,Arts And Revolutions--Congresses,Civilization, Modern--French Influences--Congresses,France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Influence--Congresses,France--Relations--Foreign Countries--Congresses

Table of Contents

Title Page

Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of World History

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Providence for the Revolutionary People

2: Writing Revolution: Michelet's History of the French Revolution

3: Sexual Politics: Marivaux's La Colonie

4: Cazotte and the Counterrevolution or the Art of Losing One's Head

5: The Concept of Virtue in Literature and Politics During the French Revolution of 1789: Sade and Robespierre

6: Mme. De Staël: Comparative Politics as Revolutionary Practice

7: Revolution in the Boudoir: Mme. Roland's Subversion of Rousseau's Feminine Ideals

8: French Women Writers and the Revolution: Preliminary Thoughts

9: The Sublimity of Speech as Action: The Myth of Mirabeau, 1791-1848

10: French Theater and Revolution: The Eve and the Aftermath

11: Rewriting the Revolutionary Past in Les Prussiens en Lorraine

12: Prosper Mérimée Is Thinking the Revolution

13: Georges Sorel and the "Dreyfusard Revolution"

14: Revolution in the Education Sentimentale: Structure, Theory and History

15: Cities, Bourgeois, and the French Revolution

16: The Nobility's New Clothes: Revisionism and the Survival of the Nobility During the French Revolution

17: The Rights of Man and the Right to Vote: The Franchise Question During the French Revolution

18: Aux Urnes, Citoyens! The Transformation of French Electoral Participation (1789-1870)

19: The Impact of the French Revolution on London Reform Societies

20: The French Revolution and Spain

21: Republican Revolution or Absolutist Reform?

22: The French Revolution of 1789 and its Impact on Spanish- American Independence

23: Waves Breaking on a Distant Shore: Puerto Rico in the Era of the French Revolution

24: The Influence of the French Revolution on Lenin's Conception of the Russian Revolution

25: Uses of the Past: Bolshevism and the French Revolutionary Tradition

26: Marianne Revisited: Anti-Republican Political Caricature, 1880-1900

27: The Lost Legacy of the French Revolution and the Persecution of French Jewry in Vichy France

Index

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