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The Resource The family romance of the French Revolution, Lynn Hunt
The family romance of the French Revolution, Lynn Hunt
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The item The family romance of the French Revolution, Lynn Hunt represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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- Summary
- This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a daring multidisciplinary investigation of the imaginative foundations of modern politics. "Family romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and belonging to one of higher social standing. In Freud's view, the family romance was a way for individuals to fantasize about their place in the social order. Hunt uses the term more broadly, to describe the images of the familial order underlying revolutionary politics. She investigates the narratives of family relations that structured the collective political unconscious. Most Europeans in the eighteenth century thought of their rulers as fathers and of their nations as families writ large. The French Revolution violently disrupted that patriarchal model of authority and raised troubling questions about what was to replace it. The king and queen were executed after dramatic separate trials. Prosecutors in the trial of the queen accused her of exerting undue influence on the king and his ministers, engaging in sexual debauchery, and even committing incest with her eight-year-old son. Hunt focuses on the meaning of killing the king-father and the queen-mother and what these ritual sacrifices meant to the establishment of a new model of politics. In a wide-ranging account that uses 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 213 pages
- Note
- "A Centennial book"--Half title page
- Contents
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- The family model of politics
- The rise and fall of the good father
- The band of brothers
- The bad mother
- Sade's family politics
- Rehabilitating the family
- Isbn
- 9780520077416
- Label
- The family romance of the French Revolution
- Title
- The family romance of the French Revolution
- Statement of responsibility
- Lynn Hunt
- Subject
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- Collectief geheugen
- Collectief geheugen
- Familie
- Familienbeziehung
- Familiensoziologie
- Familierelaties
- Familierelaties
- Families -- France -- History -- 18th century
- France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Psychological aspects
- Franse Revolutie
- Franse Revolutie
- Französische Revolution
- Französische Revolution
- Gezinsrelaties
- Gezinsrelaties
- Auswirkung
- Historia da europa
- Historia moderna (sociedade)
- Historia moderna (sociedade)
- Königsfamilie
- Louis, XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 -- Death and burial
- Politischer Wandel
- Psychologische aspecten
- Psychologische aspecten
- Regicide
- Revolucao
- Revolucao
- Symbolen
- Symbolen
- Symbolism in politics -- France -- History -- 18th century
- Historia da europa
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a daring multidisciplinary investigation of the imaginative foundations of modern politics. "Family romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and belonging to one of higher social standing. In Freud's view, the family romance was a way for individuals to fantasize about their place in the social order. Hunt uses the term more broadly, to describe the images of the familial order underlying revolutionary politics. She investigates the narratives of family relations that structured the collective political unconscious. Most Europeans in the eighteenth century thought of their rulers as fathers and of their nations as families writ large. The French Revolution violently disrupted that patriarchal model of authority and raised troubling questions about what was to replace it. The king and queen were executed after dramatic separate trials. Prosecutors in the trial of the queen accused her of exerting undue influence on the king and his ministers, engaging in sexual debauchery, and even committing incest with her eight-year-old son. Hunt focuses on the meaning of killing the king-father and the queen-mother and what these ritual sacrifices meant to the establishment of a new model of politics. In a wide-ranging account that uses 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1945-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hunt, Lynn
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DC148
- LC item number
- .H86 1992
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Louis
- Symbolism in politics
- Regicide
- Families
- Collectief geheugen
- Familierelaties
- Franse Revolutie
- Gezinsrelaties
- Historia da europa
- Historia moderna (sociedade)
- Psychologische aspecten
- Revolucao
- Symbolen
- Familie
- Familienbeziehung
- Französische Revolution
- Königsfamilie
- Franse Revolutie
- Collectief geheugen
- Familierelaties
- Symbolen
- Psychologische aspecten
- Gezinsrelaties
- Revolucao
- Historia da europa
- Historia moderna (sociedade)
- Auswirkung
- Familiensoziologie
- Französische Revolution
- Politischer Wandel
- France
- Label
- The family romance of the French Revolution, Lynn Hunt
- Note
- "A Centennial book"--Half title page
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The family model of politics -- The rise and fall of the good father -- The band of brothers -- The bad mother -- Sade's family politics -- Rehabilitating the family
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520077416
- Lccn
- 91026852
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)24247537
- Label
- The family romance of the French Revolution, Lynn Hunt
- Note
- "A Centennial book"--Half title page
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The family model of politics -- The rise and fall of the good father -- The band of brothers -- The bad mother -- Sade's family politics -- Rehabilitating the family
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520077416
- Lccn
- 91026852
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)24247537
Subject
- Collectief geheugen
- Collectief geheugen
- Familie
- Familienbeziehung
- Familiensoziologie
- Familierelaties
- Familierelaties
- Families -- France -- History -- 18th century
- France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Psychological aspects
- Franse Revolutie
- Franse Revolutie
- Französische Revolution
- Französische Revolution
- Gezinsrelaties
- Gezinsrelaties
- Auswirkung
- Historia da europa
- Historia moderna (sociedade)
- Historia moderna (sociedade)
- Königsfamilie
- Louis, XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 -- Death and burial
- Politischer Wandel
- Psychologische aspecten
- Psychologische aspecten
- Regicide
- Revolucao
- Revolucao
- Symbolen
- Symbolen
- Symbolism in politics -- France -- History -- 18th century
- Historia da europa
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