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. |
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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 |
Index | 269 |
Helen Maria Williams and the French Revolution | 153 |
Comedy Tragedy and Romance in Williams Letters from France | 163 |
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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
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الصفحة 114 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
الصفحة 188 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
الصفحة 112 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
الصفحة 256 - Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1957, pp.
الصفحة 133 - ... amidst the horrid yells, and shrilling screams, and frantic dances, and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations of the furies of hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women.
الصفحة 134 - A band of cruel ruffians and assassins, reeking with his blood, rushed into the chamber of the Queen, and pierced, with a hundred strokes of bayonets and poniards, the bed from whence this persecuted woman had but just time to fly almost naked...
الصفحة 176 - There must be a great change of scene ; there must be a magnificent stage effect; there must be a grand spectacle to rouse the imagination, grown torpid with the lazy enjoyment of sixty years security, and the still unanimating repose of public prosperity.
الصفحة 48 - I cannot consider Mr Burke's book in scarcely any other light than a dramatic performance; and he must, I think, have considered it in the same light himself, by the poetical liberties he has taken of omitting some facts, distorting others, and making the whole machinery bend to produce a stage effect.
الصفحة 137 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, — in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
الصفحة 64 - I rejected the hardened, sullen-tempered Pharaoh of England for ever; and disdain the wretch, that with the pretended title of FATHER OF HIS PEOPLE can unfeelingly hear of their slaughter, and composedly sleep with their blood upon his soul.