The Frankenstein of 1790 and other lost chapters from revolutionary France
By: Julia V. Douthwaite
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226160580
Subjects: Literature and revolutions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A revolution in literary studies; title: Precursors; title: On revolutionary fiction: definitions; title: Significance for readers of 1789-1803; title: Significance for readers of our time; title: From fish seller to suffragist: the women's march on Versailles; title: Introduction; title: The anxiety of ambivalence: journalism of october 1789; title: Poissard and amazonian pamphletry; title: The poissarde's cultural heritage; title: Fictions of amazonian ambition; title: Coda: how the fish seller became a suffragist, thanks to L. Frank Baum; title: The Frankenstein of the French revolution; title: Introduction; title: Legislating invention in 1790-91; title: Inventors and inventions in the public eye; title: An object lesson on automaton politics; title: The automaton between le miroir and Frankenstein: Condorcet, Doppet and Hoffmann; title: Coda: Frankenstein's creature in the mechanical mold; title: The once and only pitiful king; title: Introduction; title: Part one: Varennes; title: Part two: les adieux; title: Coda: how fatherhood failed the king, according to Balzac; title: How literature ended the terror; title: Introduction; title: The revolutionary tribunal; title: Prisoners' tales; title: Crime narratives; title: Coda: how literature ended the terror; title: In guise of a conclusion.