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The play of terror in nineteenth-century France

Title: The play of terror in nineteenth-century France / edited by John T. Booker and Allan H. Pasco.
Publication: Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, 1997.

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274 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This volume brings together seventeen studies that were originally presented as papers at the nineteenth annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies held at the University of Kansas in 1993. The contributors all consider one facet or another of the play of terror in nineteenth-century France. In the wake of the French Revolution - and its most enduring image, that of the historical Terror - all aspects of life in France, both public and private, were to be fundamentally changed forever. Long-standing balances of power and authority had been upset, and new tensions had been created that would continue to play themselves out over the course of the following century.
In a number of cases, the focus of this volume is on the representation - literary, historical, or artistic - of the Terror itself, whether in novels such as Hugo's Quatrevingt-treize or Balzac's Une tenebreuse affaire, or in the art Salon of 1827-28. More often, however, contributors consider terror in its more general acceptation of fear or intense anxiety experienced in the face of violence, coercion, or intimidation.

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Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Credits (note)

"Originally presented as papers at the nineteenth annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, held at the University of Kansas in October, 1993". - introduction.

Contents

Violence justified? : raison d'armée in early nineteenth-century France / Catharine Savage Brosman -- (En)gendering terror : women and violence in Quatrevingt-treize / Charles Nunley -- "There shall be earthquakes, in diverse places" : volcanic terror in Flora Tristan's Pérégrinations d'une paria / Kathleen Hart -- Paintings of terrorized parlementaires for the Bourbon Conseil d'état / Jonathan P. Ribner -- Dandysme : terrorism with style / Pamela A. Genova -- Terre ferme, terreur des femmes : le cou(p) de grâce chez Maupassant et Mallarmé / Richard E. Goodkin -- "Vérité est inutile" : visionaries of the terror in Nodier and Nerval / Mary Jane Cowles -- Lamiel de Stendahl à feu et à sang / Pauline Wahl Willis -- Balzac at the crossroads : the emplotment of terror in Une ténébreuse affaire / Owen Heathcote -- Huysmans le terrible : à propos du terrifiant dans l'écriture du rêve et la critique d'art de J.-K. Huysmans / Frédéric Canovas -- Piety and pourriture : Huysmans's women terrorists / Renée Kingcaid -- Homme sans nom et la terreur littéraire / William Paulson -- Masters and slaves in Le rouge et le noir and Indiana / Hope Christiansen -- Literature and suicide / J.A. Hiddleston -- Barante's Historiography of terror / Patricia A. Ward -- Terrorism and terror in Balzac's Histoire des Treize / Richard B. Grant -- Balzac : tenebrous affairs and necessary explications / Armine Kotin Mortimer.

ISBN

0874135893
9780874135893

LCCN

96012771

OCLC

ocm34411932
34411932
SCSB-9125318

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Princeton University Library