The family romance of the French Revolution / Lynn Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Lynn, 1945-

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793--Death and burial.

Louis.

Symbolism in politics--France--History--18th century.

Symbolism in politics.

Regicides.

Families--France--History--18th century.

Families.

Symbolism in politics--History--18th century--France.

Regicide--History--18th century--France.

Regicide.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Psychological aspects.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 213 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a multidisciplinary investigation of the foundations of modern politics. "Family Romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and joining one of higher social standing. Lynn Hunt uses the term broadly to describe the images of the familial order underlying revolutionary politics. In a wide-ranging account using novels, engravings, paintings, speeches, newspaper editorials, pornographic writing, and revolutionary legislation about the family, Hunt shows that politics were experienced through the grid of the family romance.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

1. The Family Model of Politics

2. The Rise and Fall of the Good Father

3. The Band of Brothers

4. The Bad Mother

5. Sade's Family Politics

6. Rehabilitating the Family

Epilogue: Patriarchy in the Past Tense?

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520913776

0520913779

9780585178332

058517833X

OCLC:

1414456814

Publisher Number:

2027/heb01881 hdl