An edition of The Frankenstein of 1790 and other lost chapters from revolutionary France
(2012)
The Frankenstein of 1790 and other lost chapters from revolutionary France
by Julia V. Douthwaite
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The Frankenstein of 1790 and other lost chapters from revolutionary France
2012, The University of Chicago Press, University of Chicago Press
in English
0226160580 9780226160580
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Table of Contents
A revolution in literary studies
Precursors
On revolutionary fiction: definitions
Significance for readers of 1789-1803
Significance for readers of our time
From fish seller to suffragist: the women's march on Versailles
Introduction
The anxiety of ambivalence: journalism of october 1789
Poissard and amazonian pamphletry
The poissarde's cultural heritage
Fictions of amazonian ambition
Coda: how the fish seller became a suffragist, thanks to L. Frank Baum
The Frankenstein of the French revolution
Introduction
Legislating invention in 1790-91
Inventors and inventions in the public eye
An object lesson on automaton politics
The automaton between le miroir and Frankenstein: Condorcet, Doppet and Hoffmann
Coda: Frankenstein's creature in the mechanical mold
The once and only pitiful king
Introduction
Part one: Varennes
Part two: les adieux
Coda: how fatherhood failed the king, according to Balzac
How literature ended the terror
Introduction
The revolutionary tribunal
Prisoners' tales
Crime narratives
Coda: how literature ended the terror
In guise of a conclusion.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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