Body and the French Revolution - Sex, Class and Political Culture

This book, first published in 1989, is an analysis of what changed in 1789 with the French Revolution and what contemporary life owes to the event, particularly with regards to the body and public life, as the revolutionary middle class set new ideals and behaviours.

List of contents

1. The Problem of the Body in Political Culture 2. Modern Histories of the Body 3. Deconstructing the French Revolution 4. The Eighteenth-Century Medical Revolution: Bodies, Souls and the Social Classes 5. A New Public Body: Stoicism, Suffering and the Middle Class in the French Revolution 6. Heroic Suicide: The End of the Body and the Beginning of History 7. The Guillotine, the Soul and the Audience for Death 8. Words and Flesh: Mme Roland, the Female Body and the Search for Power 9. The French Revolution, Modernity and the Body Politic

About the author

Dorinda Outram

Summary

This book, first published in 1989, is an analysis of what changed in 1789 with the French Revolution and what contemporary life owes to the event, particularly with regards to the body and public life, as the revolutionary middle class set new ideals and behaviours.

Product details

• Authors: Dorinda Outram, Outram Dorinda
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781032126388
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3212638-8
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Revolution
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; France, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, General & world history, Revolutionary groups & movements, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, General and world history, Demonstrations & protest movements, Revolutionary groups and movements