The calendar in revolutionary France : perceptions of time in literature, culture, politics /

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"One of the most unusual decisions of the leaders of the French Revolution - and one that had immense practical as well as symbolic impact - was to abandon customarily accepted ways of calculating date and time to create a revolutionary calendar. The experiment lasted from 1793 to 1805 and prom...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Perovic, Sanja
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
1789-1815
Calendar, Republican > History.
Time > Philosophy > History.
Calendrier républicain > Histoire.
Temps > Philosophie > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Calendar, Republican
Time > Philosophy
France > History > 1789-1815.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799.
France > Histoire > 1789-1815.
France
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. From myth to lived experience: the literary and cultural origins of the revolutionary calendar
  • 2. Between the volcano and the sun: Sylvain Maréchal against his time
  • 3. History and nature: the double origins of Republican time
  • 4. Death by volcano: revolutionary terror and the problem of year II
  • 5. Unenthusiastic memory: imagining the festive calendar
  • 6. Perishable Enlightenment: wearing out the calendar
  • 7. The end of the lyrical Revolution and the calendar's piecemeal decline
  • Conclusion
  • Chronology of Gregorian and Republican calendars
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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