- Description
- 1 online resource (xx, 456 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "1848 was a pivotal moment not only in Europe but in much of the rest of the world too. Marx's scornful dismissal of the revolutions created a historiography for 1848 that has persisted for more than 150 years. Serial Revolutions 1848 shows how, far from being the failure that Karl Marx claimed them to be, the revolutions of 1848 were a powerful response to the political failure of governments across Europe to care for their people. Crucially, this revolutionary response was the result of new forms of representation and mediation: until the ragged and the angry could see themselves represented, and represented as a serial phenomenon, such a political consciousness was impossible. By the 1840s, the developments in printing, transport, and distribution discussed in Clare Pettitt's Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 (Oxford University Press, 2020) had made the social visible in an unprecedented way. This print revolution led to a series of real and bloody revolutions in the streets of European cities. The revolutionaries of 1848 had the temerity to imagine universal human rights and a world in which everyone could live without fear, hunger, or humiliation. If looked at like this, the events of 1848 do not seem such 'poor incidents', as Marx described them, nor such an embarrassing failure after all. Returning to 1848, we can choose to look back on that 'springtime of the peoples' as a moment of tragi-comic failure, obliterated by the brutalities that followed, or we can look again, and see it as a proleptic moment of stored potential, an extraordinary series of events that generated long-distance and sustainable ideas about global citizenship, international co-operation, and a shared and common humanity which have not yet been fully understood or realised."--Publisher's website.
- Uniform Title
- Serial revolutions 1848 (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Serial revolutions 1848 (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-439) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: Why 1848 matters -- 1. Revolutionary tourists -- 2. Moving pictures -- 3. The ragged of Europe -- 4. The inter-national novel -- 5. Under siege -- 6. Serially speaking -- 7. Slavery and citizenship -- 8. O bella libertà -- 9. Forms of the future -- 10. The grammar of revolution -- Flaubert's afterword.
- LCCN
- 2021942709
- OCLC
- ssj0002703693
- Author
Pettitt, Clare.
- Title
Serial revolutions 1848 [electronic resource] : writing, politics, form / Clare Pettitt.
- Imprint
Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
- Edition
First edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-439) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Chronological Term
1800-1899