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Representing violence in France, 1760-1820 / edited by Thomas Wynn.
LIBRA PQ2105.A2 S8 v.2013:10
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SVEC ; 2013:10.
- SVEC, 0435-2866 ; 2013:10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence--France--History--18th century.
- Violence.
- Violence--France--History--19th century.
- Violence in literature.
- French literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- French literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- History.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, [2013]
- Contents:
- Violence and the crisis of reason. Gambling and violence: Loaisel de Tréogate as a neuroscientist? / John Dunkley ; Metaphors of popular violence in the revolutionary debate in the wake of Edmund Burke / Olivier Ritz ; Dreaming the terror: the other stage of revolutionary violence / Stephanie Genand ; Gothic explosions: Révéroni Saint-Cyr's Pauliska ou La Perversité moderne
- Violence and the (re)writing of history. The 'dix août' (10 August 1792) in literary texts / Catriona Seth ; Violence in history and the rise of the historical novel: the case of the marquis de Sade ; The everlasting trials of Jean Calas: justice, theatre and trauma in the early years of the revolution ; Violence in the theatre of the Revolution / Pierre Frantz
- Violence and institutions. Violence, vulnerability and subjectivity in Sade / Thomas Wynn ; The Bastille or the 'Enfer de Dutailli de Saint-Pierre' ; Violence, terrorism and the legacy of the Enlightenment: debates around Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Revolution
- Violence and morality. Violence in the work of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre / Malcolm Cook ; Violence and the monster: the private lives of the duc d'Orléans ; 'Avec une telle violence que...' : Sade's use of the term violence / Jean-Christophe Abramovici ; The sound of violence: listening to rape in Sade / Will McMorran ; Violence in the novels of Charlotte (de) Bournon-Malarme / Michel Delon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780729410762
- 0729410765
- OCLC:
- 855703758
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