Lafayette in two worlds : public cultures and personal identities in an age of revolution / Lloyd Kramer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kramer, Lloyd, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statesmen--France--Biography.

Statesmen.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French.

United States.

France--Politics and government--1789-1900.

France.

France--Intellectual life--19th century.

France--History--July Revolution, 1830.

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834--Influence.

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier.

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834--Relations with intellectuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 354 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1996]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kramer examines how Lafayette influenced the politics and culture of his day.

Contents:

Introduction: Lafayette and the history of two worlds

America's Lafayette and Lafayette's America: a European and the American Revolution

Was Lafayette a dumbbell or a shredded text? : political conflict and symbolic meanings in the French Revolution

Lafayette and liberal theorists: intellectuals, politics, and the legacy of the French Revolution

Lafayette and the Romantic culture, 1815-1834

Lafayette and women writers: Germaine de Stael, Fanny Wright, and Cristina Belgiojoso

Lafayette, Tocqueville, and American national identity

Lafayette in 1830: a center that could not hold

The Rights of Man: Lafayette and the Polish National Revolution, 1830-1834

Epilogue: Lafayette and postrevolutionary political culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-339) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890878731

9780807862674

0807862673