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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"French Revolution"”.
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The French Revolution and the idea of progress
… would be retrogression. Progress may be revolutionary or it may be evolutionary. Both methods have been successfully employed by man in his development to the present time. In any study of progress, social progress should be carefully distinguished from racial progress. This distinction …
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Forms of Enclosure: The Convent Plays of the French Revolution
… and proliferation of plays about convents, a French revolutionary subgenre based on the representation of monastic costume, setting, and characters. In the Old Regime, the theatrical representation of Roman Catholic clerics and garb was prohibited from the public theater. After 1789, however, …
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British women’s travel writings in the era of the French Revolution
… participated in the political culture in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era. Part One will discuss those who tried hard to challenge or to correct traditionally-defined femininity and to prove themselves useful in their society. Many of them negotiated with and broadened the traditionally …
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Masks and masking practices in old regime France and the French Revolution
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Carlyle And The Economics Of Terror: A Study Of Revisionary Gothicism In "the French Revolution"
Carlyle's The French Revolution occupies a distinctive place in literary history; its obscure and resistant style, its unrelenting use of Gothic overtones and its deliberate cultivation of equivocalness are part of a linguistic economy that challenges the currency of the sign. Reduced in function …
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The development of the concept of communism in France from the French Revolution to 1848
… of this thesis is to trace the development of French communist movements from the late eighteenth century to 1848, when the Communist Manifesto appeared. Major emphasis is placed upon the revolutionaries themselves and the ideas that motivated them. They were linked to each other by a common …
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The discourse of women writers in the French Revolution: Olympe de Gouges and Constance de Salm
… Lynn Hunt, and many others, argued that the French Revolution excluded women from the public sphere and confined them to the domestic realm. Joan Landes also argued that the patriarchal discourse was a mere reflection of social reality. In The Other Enlightenment, Carla Hesse argues for the …
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"""Vive La Republique. Vive L'empereur."": Military Culture and Motivation in the Armies of Napoleon, 1803--1808"
… tend to emphasize Napoleon's betrayal of the French Revolution and the transformation of the French army into a professional force motivated by concepts of honor defined by self-interest. This dissertation proposes that over time, the Napoleonic regime did increasingly promote values such as …
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Two Artistis, One Revolution: Jacques Louis David and Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
… (1755 - 1842) were two prominent and influential French painters of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This thesis examines the lives of these two artists during and after the French Revolution (1789-1815). Vigée-LeBrun’s work consists mainly of portraits commissioned by European …
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Charlotte the Assassin: A Novel
… during the federalist revolt of 1793, during the French Revolution. It involves murder, witches, and female friendships and romantic relationships.
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Sartre’s reshaping of political philosophy for post-revolutionary times
Originated in a philosophical questioning on the French-Algerian postcolonial situation, this thesis focuses on Sartre’s philosophy as an attempt to answer the theoretical conflicts inherited from the French Revolution. I conceptualise the post-revolutionary era as a conflict between ethics and …
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The aesthetics of radical critique : Kant or the dialectic and revolution
… the emergence of the Modem state, and the French revolution. Two solutions to this problem present themselves within Kant's separation of public and private uses of reason. Public and private anticipates the Modem separation of state and civil society: 'moral-political' problem is thus …
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Reading the Terror over Tea: Reflections of British Nationalism in the Guillotine's Blade, 1793-1795
The period of the French Revolution known as the Terror was a cataclysmic event for Ancien Regime Europe. Nearly every aspect of life was affected by the events which unfolded in France, forcing Europeans to confront the question of national identity through the context of the French Revolution. …
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Princess On The Margins: Toward A New Portrait Of Madame Élisabeth De France
… and place with the political culture of the French Revolution.</p>
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