Crisis in Representation: Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams, and the Rewriting of the French RevolutionFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1997 - 273 من الصفحات All three responded by "writing out" the crisis - in the simultaneous sense of erasure and exposure - by reconceiving the Revolution through strategies and themes of repetition. Wollstonecraft and Williams explained the Terror as a "counterrevolutionary" return to the past, and both represented it as a repetitive version of Shakespeare's Macbeth. This intertextual revision is also resonant in the works of Thomas Paine. His historical contribution to the crisis was the recreation of himself as the revolutionary writer who had literally authored the American Revolution that, in turn, had "caused" the French Revolution. |
المحتوى
25 | |
Paines Revolutionary Comedy The Bastille and October Days in the Rights of Man | 45 |
Revisionist Patricide Thomas Paines Letter to George Washington | 57 |
From the Beginning Paines Obsession with Origins and The Age of Reason | 74 |
Wollstonecraft and the French Revolution | 89 |
Wollstonecraft Macbeth and the Death of Louis XVI | 102 |
The Bastilles Blood The October Days Barriers and Marie Antoinette | 120 |
The Inevitability of Progress A Revolution Within Happier Far | 139 |
The Sublime and Beautiful in Williams Letters from France | 180 |
Feminine Representation Helen Maria Williams Letters from France | 199 |
Rewriting the Revolution Contextual Contradiction in Williams Letters from France | 215 |
Epilogue | 236 |
Paines Letters to Burke | 240 |
Notes | 243 |
Works Cited | 261 |
269 | |
Helen Maria Williams and the French Revolution | 153 |
Comedy Tragedy and Romance in Williams Letters from France | 163 |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Age of Reason allusion America American Revolution Bastille betrayal betrayed blood Burke Burke's Cambridge cause Common Sense Constitution context contradictions contrast counterrevolutionary Crisis criticism death despotism Edmund Burke English Enquiry evokes Federalist female feminine Festival of Federation fiction Fossé France French Revolution friends Girondins Girondist guillotine Helen Maria Williams hence Ibid ideological illusion imagery imagination imprisoned ingratitude insists Jacobin king king's language Laurens Letter to George Letter to Washington Letters from France liberation liberty linguistic London Louis XVI lution Macbeth Marie Antoinette Mary Wollstonecraft masculine ment murder National Convention nature notes October Days oppressed original Paris Parisian past political prelapsarian principles prison queen radical refers Reflections repetition representation Revo Revolution's revolutionary rewriting Rights Robespierre role romance scene spectacle stained stonecraft sublime and beautiful subsequently suggests suppressed Terror terrorist theatrical Thomas Paine tion tionary tragedy University Press Vendée Versailles victims violation women writing