Representing the French Revolution : literature, historiography, and art /
Heffernan, James A. W.
Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College : University Press of New England,
c1992.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Revolution in language : Burke's representation of linguistic terror / Steven Blakemore -- Blake, violence, and visionary politics / William Keach -- History and autobiography : the French Revolution in Wordsworth's Prelude / James A.W. Heffernan -- "Such a figure drew Priam's curtains!" : Carlyle's epic history of the Revolution / Mark Cumming -- Michelet and the French Revolution / Lionel Gossman -- Icon and symbol : the historical figure called Maximilien Robespierre / Ann Rigney -- Representing the body politic : fictions of the State / Carol Blum -- Performing arts : theatricality and the Terror / Marie-Hélène Huet -- The rights and wrongs of woman : the defeat of feminist rhetoric by revolutionary allegory / Madelyn Gutwirth -- Swordplay : Jacques-Louis David's painting of Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau on his deathbed / Donna M. Hunter.
(cont.) Obscene humor in French revolutionary caricature : Jacques-Louis David's The army of jugs and The English Government / James Cuno -- Crossing the Border : The French Revolution in the German literary imagination / Susanne Zantop -- Haiti's tragic overture : (mis)representations of the Haitian Revolution in world drama (1796-1975) / VèVè A. Clark -- Carpentier's enlightened revolution, Goya's Sleep of reason / Beatriz Pastor.
Public opinion