The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact

Table of contents

• Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of World History ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgments ix
• Introduction xi
• 1 - Providence for the Revolutionary People 1
• 2 - Writing Revolution: Michelet's History of the French Revolution 13
• NOTES 20
• 3 - Sexual Politics: Marivaux's La Colonie 23
• References 30
• 4 - Cazotte and the Counterrevolution or the Art of Losing One's Head 33
• References 49
• 5 - The Concept of Virtue in Literature and Politics During the French Revolution of 1789: Sade and Robespierre 51
• NOTES 58
• 6 - Mme. De Staël: Comparative Politics as Revolutionary Practice 61
• NOTES 67
• 7 - Revolution in the Boudoir: Mme. Roland's Subversion of Rousseau's Feminine Ideals 69
• NOTES 86
• 8 - French Women Writers and the Revolution: Preliminary Thoughts 95
• NOTES 101
• References 103
• 9 - The Sublimity of Speech as Action: The Myth of Mirabeau, 1791-1848 105
• NOTES 111
• 10 - French Theater and Revolution: The Eve and the Aftermath 115
• NOTES 122
• 11 - Rewriting the Revolutionary Past in Les Prussiens en Lorraine 125
• References 133
• 12 - Prosper Mérimée Is Thinking the Revolution 135
• References 144
• 13 - Georges Sorel and the "Dreyfusard Revolution" 147
• NOTES 153
• 14 - Revolution in the Education Sentimentale: Structure, Theory and History 157
• References 167
• 15 - Cities, Bourgeois, and the French Revolution 169
• 16 - The Nobility's New Clothes: Revisionism and the Survival of the Nobility During the French Revolution 181
• NOTES 186
• 17 - The Rights of Man and the Right to Vote: The Franchise Question During the French Revolution 191
• NOTES 196
• 18 - Aux Urnes, Citoyens! The Transformation of French Electoral Participation (1789-1870) 199
• NOTES 205
• 19 - The Impact of the French Revolution on London Reform Societies 209
• NOTES 215
• 20 - The French Revolution and Spain 219
• NOTES 225
• 21 - Republican Revolution or Absolutist Reform? 227
• NOTE 250
• References 251
• 22 - The French Revolution of 1789 and its Impact on Spanish- American Independence 257
• NOTES 263
• 23 - Waves Breaking on a Distant Shore: Puerto Rico in the Era of the French Revolution 265
• NOTES 271
• 24 - The Influence of the French Revolution on Lenin's Conception of the Russian Revolution 273
• NOTES 281
• 25 - Uses of the Past: Bolshevism and the French Revolutionary Tradition 285
• References 304
• 26 - Marianne Revisited: Anti-Republican Political Caricature, 1880-1900 305
• NOTES 335
• References 336
• 27 - The Lost Legacy of the French Revolution and the Persecution of French Jewry in Vichy France 337
• References 353
• Index 355
• About the Editors and Contributors 367

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