Portrayals of Revolution: Images, Debates and Patterns of Thought on the French Revolution

by Noel Parker

How did the French try to understand their revolution? How have writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries portrayed so unprecedented an upheaval?

Dr. Parker examines contemporary representations of the Revolution--political rhetoric, journals, theatre, festivals, pictures and prints--concentrating on two special themes. First, the creators of these representations were part of an attempt to found anew the social order. Second, they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809316846
• ISBN13: 9780809316847
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"