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The Family Romance of the French Revolution

(Centennial Book)

By Lynn Hunt

Paperback | 9780520082700

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This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a multidisciplinary investigation of the foundations of modern politics. "Family Romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and joining one of higher social standing.Continue

This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a multidisciplinary investigation of the foundations of modern politics. "Family Romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and joining one of higher social standing. Lynn Hunt uses the term broadly to describe the images of the familial order underlying revolutionary politics. In a wide-ranging account using novels, engravings, paintings, speeches, newspaper editorials, pornographic writing, and revolutionary legislation about the family, Hunt shows that politics were experienced through the grid of the family romance.

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  • Mother’s Boys

    It used to be that historians searched for the causes of the French Revolution in the manner of detectives on the track of a master criminal. Over the years, unfortunately, they dragged such a bewildering variety of suspects into the historical stati ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 213 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0520082702
  • ISBN-13: 9780520082700
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Pub date: Feb 24, 1993
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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