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University of California Press

Family Romance of the French Revolution

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Title
Title: Family Romance of the French Revolution
Author: Lynn Hunt
ISBN: 9780520082700
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1992
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Soft Cover Edition
Number of Pages: 213
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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.