Reimagining Society in 18th Century French Literature: Happiness and Human Rights

by Jonas Ross Kj�rg�rd and Jonas Ross Kjærgård

The French revolutionary shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty came clothed in a new political language, a significant part of which was a strange coupling of happiness and rights. In Old Regime ideology, Frenchmen were considered subjects who had no need of understanding why what was prescribed to them would be in the interest of their happiness. The 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen equipped the French with a list...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367666413
• ISBN13: 9780367666415
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages