| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"A Centennial book"--Half title page. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 -- Death and burial.
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Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793. |
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Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793. |
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Symbolism in politics -- France -- History -- 18th century.
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Symbolism in politics. |
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France. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Regicides.
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Regicides. |
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Families -- France -- 18th century.
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Families. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hunt, Lynn Avery. Family romance of the French Revolution. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992 0520077415 (DLC) 91026852 (OCoLC)24247537 |
| ISBN |
9780520913776 (electronic book) |
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0520913779 (electronic book) |
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058517833X (electronic book) |
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9780585178332 (electronic book) |
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0520082702 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520082700 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520077415 |
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9780520077416 |
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