num_pages: 229
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 &amp; 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 &amp; revolutionary legislation about the family, Hunt shows that politics were experienced thru the grid of the family romance.List of IllustrationsPrefaceThe family model of politics The rise &amp; fall of the good fatherThe band of brothers The bad mother Sade's family politics Rehabilitating the familyEpilogue: Patriarchy in the Past Tense?Index
language: English
title: The Family Romance of the French Revolution
titlecomplete: The Family Romance of the French Revolution
genres: Sociology, History, Psychology, France, Read For School, European History, Politics, Gender, French Revolution, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 194
publisher: University of California Press (Berkeley/LA)