Terror And Its Discontents : Suspect Words In Revolutionary France /

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Terror and Its Discontents is a revealing look into the paradoxical embargo on free expression that underpinned the Robespierrists' self-proclaimed "despotism of liberty" during the French Revolution. Caroline Weber provides a highly original--and timely--exposition of the political u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weber, Caroline, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Revolutionaries > Language.
Language and languages.
French language > Political aspects.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Revolutionnaires > France > Langage.
Français (Langue) > 18e siecle > Aspect politique > France.
Revolutionaries > France > Language.
French language > 18th century > Political aspects > France.
France.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Language.
France > History > Reign of Terror, 1793-1794.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Prologue: The Revolution Is Frozen; ONE: Rousseau's "Contradiction of Words": Sublime Totality and the Social Pact; TWO: The Terror That Speaks: The Unspeakable Politics of Robespierre and Saint-Just; THREE: The Bridle and the Spur: Collusion and Contestation in Desmoulins's Vieux Cordelier; FOUR: The Second Time as Farce: Sade Says It All, Ironically; Epilogue: The Revolution Eats Its Children; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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