Writers and Revolution

The revolution of 1848 has been described as the revolution of the intellectuals. In France, the revolution galvanised the energies of major romantic writers and intellectuals. This book follows nine writers through the revolution of 1848 and its aftermath: Alphonse de Lamartine, George Sand, Marie d'Agoult, Victor Hugo, Alexis de Tocqueville, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Alexander Herzen, Karl Marx, and Gustave Flaubert. Conveying a sense of the experience of 1848 as these writers lived it, this fresh and engaging study captures the sense of possibility at a time when it was not yet clear that the Second French Republic had no future. By looking closely at key texts in which each writer attempted to understand, judge, criticise, or intervene in the revolution, Jonathan Beecher shows how each endeavoured to answer the question posed explicitly by Tocqueville: Why, within the space of two generations, did democratic revolutions twice culminate in the dictatorship of a Napoleon?

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jonathan (University of California Beecher, Jonathan Beecher
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 31.05.2021
• Categoria: Saggistica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva
• EAN: 9781108842532
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84253-2
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.8 x 23.6 x 3 cm
• Serie: Print on Demand
• Categorie: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, France, European History, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / France, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, C 1700 To C 1800, c 1790 to c 1799, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions