Representing violence in France, 1760-1820
By: edited by Thomas Wynn
Series: SVEC -- 2013:10; SVEC -- 2013:10.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation; Voltaire Foundation in association with Liverpool University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780729410762
Subjects: French literature; History and criticism; Violence; History; Violence in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Violence and the crisis of reason. Gambling and violence: Loaisel de Tréogate as a neuroscientist? / John Dunkley ; Metaphors of popular vioence in the revolutionary debate in the wake of Edmund Burke / Oliver Ritz ; Dreaming the terror: the other stage of revolutionary violence / Stephanie Genand ; Gothic explosions: Révéroni Saint-Cyr's Pauliska ou La Perversité moderne; title: Violence and the (re)writing of history. The 'dix août' (10 August 1792) in literary texts / Catriona Seth ; Violence in history and the rise of the historical novel: the case of the marquis de Sade ; The everlasting trials of Jean Calas: justice, theatre and trauma in the early years of the revolution ; Violence in the theatre of the Revolution / Pierre Frantz; title: Violence and institutions. Violence, vulnerability and subjectivity in Sade / Thomas Wynn ; The Bastille or the 'Enfer de Dutailli de Saint-Pierre' ; Violence, terrorism and the legacy of the Enlightenment: debates around Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Revolution; title: Violence and morality. Violence in the work of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre / Malcolm Cook ; Violence and the monster: the private lives of the duc d'Orléans ; 'Avec une telle violence que...' : Sade's use of the term violence / Jean-Christophe Abramovici ; The sound of violence: listening to rape in Sade / Will McMorran ; Violence in the novels of Charlotte (de) Bournon-Malarme / Michel Delon.