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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520077415
ISBN-139780520077416
eBay Product ID (ePID)882425
Product Key Features
Book TitleFamily Romance of the French Revolution
Number of Pages213 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
TopicRoyalty, Europe / France, General, Europe / General, Sociology / Marriage & Family
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorLynn A. Hunt
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN91-026852
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal944.04
SynopsisThis 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.