The Frankenstein of 1790 and other lost chapters from revolutionary France
By: Julia V. Douthwaite
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780226160580
Subjects: Literature and revolutions; History
Description: The French Revolution brings to mind violent mobs, the guillotine, and Madame Defarge, but it was also a publishing revolution. Douthwaite explores how the works within this corpus announced the new shapes of literature to come and reveals that vestiges of these stories can be found in novels by the likes of Mary Shelley.
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.