Tropes of Revolution

Writers’ Reactions to Real and Imagined Revolutions 1789-1989

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Volume Editors:
C.C. Barfoot
and
Theo D'haen
Copyright Year:
1991
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Tropes of Revolution: Introduction
Figures and Actors: On the March to Versailles 5–6 October 1789
Throwing Caution to the Revolutionary Winds? Reflections on Edmund Burke’s “Philosophy of Cautious Compromise”
From Riches to Rags: Literary Images in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France
Hazlitt and the French Revolution
Things as They Seem: Caleb Williams and the Art of Deception
Describing the Revolution: Wordsworth, Freud and Lacan
The Hundred Days and Revolution’s Principles
Parody and the Classic Art of Political Partisanship in The Anti-Jacobin
The Rovers; or, the Double Arrangement: The Anti-Jacobins and German Drama
The French Revolution and the German Classical Period
The Effect of the French Revolution in Germany: Christoph Martin Wieland and Georg Forster
The Enlightenment, the Press and Revolution in Spain
Revolution as Revue: Peter Weiss’s and Tankred Dorst’s German “Revolution-Plays”
The Revolution in the French Contemporary Theatre: Critical Reflection in 1789 by the “Théâtre du Soleil”
Historical Novels and the French Revolution
From A Tale of Two Cities to Mam’zelle Guillotine: The French Revolution Seen through Popular Fiction
The Risorgimento and English Literature
The Terrorist’s Story: The Reign of Terror and Later Terrorists in Literature
“Earthquakes Never Occur in England”; or, “Perhaps I Can Help?”: The Ambivalence of the Revolutionary in Herbert Read’s The Green Child
Critical Implications of Trotsky’s Literature and Revolution
Back Matter
Notes on Contributors
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Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
401 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004484429

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