Terror and its discontents
Subtitle: suspect words in revolutionary France
By: Caroline Weber.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: French language -- 18th century -- Political aspects -- France.; Revolutionaries -- France -- Language.; France -- History -- Reign of Terror, 1793-1794.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Language.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 1998) presented under the title: The limits of "saying everything: terrorist suppressions and uspeakable difference in Rousseau, Sade, Robespierre, Saint-Just, and Desmoulins."