Representing the French Revolution

by Heffernan, James A. W.

• ISBN13: 9780874515657
• ISBN10: 0874515653
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-06-01
• Publisher: Dartmouth College

Table of Contents

Preface
The View from England
Revolution in Language: Burke's Representation of Linguistic Terror	p. 3
Blake, Violence, and Visionary Politics	p. 24
History and Autobiography: The French Revolution in Wordsworth's Prelude	p. 41
"Such a Figure Drew Priam's Curtains!": Carlyle's Epic History of the Revolution	p. 63
Crossing the Channel: Revolutionary France in French Mirrors
Michelet and the French Revolution	p. 81
Icon and Symbol: The Historical Figure Called Maximilien Robespierre	p. 106
Representing the Body Politic: Fictions of the State	p. 123
Performing Arts: Theatricality and the Terror	p. 135
The Rights and Wrongs of Woman: The Defeat of Feminist Rhetoric by Revolutionary Allegory	p. 150
Swordplay: Jacques-Louis David's Painting of Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau on His Deathbed	p. 169
Obscene Humor in French Revolutionary Caricature: Jacques-Louis David's The Army of Jugs and The English Government	p. 192
Crossing the Border: The French Revolution in the German Imagination
Crossing the Border: The French Revolution in the German Literary Imagination	p. 213
Crossing the Ocean: The French Revolution in the Caribbean Imagination
Haiti's Tragic Overture: (Mis)Representations of the Haitian Revolution in World Drama (1796-1975)	p. 237
Carpentier's Enlightened Revolution, Goya's Sleep of Reason	p. 261
Notes on Contributors	p. 277
Index	p. 279
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