The play of terror in nineteenth-century France
By: edited by John T. Booker and Allan H. Pasco.
Contributors: Booker, John T., 1942-; Pasco, Allan H.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Terror in literature.; France -- History -- Reign of Terror, 1793-1794.
Description: This volume brings together seventeen studies that were originally presented as papers at the nineteenth annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies held at the University of Kansas in 1993. The contributors all consider one facet or another of the play of terror in nineteenth-century France.

In the wake of the French Revolution - and its most enduring image, that of the historical Terror - all aspects of life in France, both public and private, were to be fundamentally changed forever. Long-standing balances of power and authority had been upset, and new tensions had been created that would continue to play themselves out over the course of the following century.

In a number of cases, the focus of this volume is on the representation - literary, historical, or artistic - of the Terror itself, whether in novels such as Hugo's Quatrevingt-treize or Balzac's Une tenebreuse affaire, or in the art Salon of 1827-28. More often, however, contributors consider terror in its more general acceptation of fear or intense anxiety experienced in the face of violence, coercion, or intimidation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.