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The Family Romance of the French Revolution (Centennial Book)

By Lynn Hunt

Book information

Year
1993
ISBN
0520082702, 9780585178332, 9780520082700, 0520077415, 9780520077416
LCC
DC148 .H86 1992
Open Library ID
OL1547468M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (31808013 bytes)
Pages
213\230
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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