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In this vanguard collection, a stellar group of internationally known scholars explores a key period in the making of the modern West. Although the long-standing notion of "dual revolutions," economic in Britain and political in France, has been vigorously challenged in recent years, these authors find that "revolutionary" is an apt description of the important cultural transformations that took place in both France and Britain at the onset of modernity.
The essays, by social and cultural historians as well as by literary scholars, range over many critical themes within this cross-cultural revolution: class, politics, and the nature of social change; gender and identity; race and imperialism; and the reach of the cultural imaginary. Combining primary research with theoretical reflection, each chapter makes a fresh and compelling contribution to the rethinking of these crucial years in world history. "The Age of Cultural Revolutions, " a superb distillation of the interdisciplinary perspectives of culturally sensitive experts, is revolutionary in itself and will be a valuable model for scholars and students interested in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and France, European cultural history, and historical method.
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| List of Contributors | p. xi |
| Introduction: An Age of Cultural Revolutions? | p. 1 |
| The Places of the Dead in Modernity | p. 17 |
| Jumonville's Death: War Propaganda and National Identity in Eighteenth-Century France | p. 33 |
| Pacific Modernity: Theater, Englishness, and the Arts of Discovery, 1760-1800 | p. 62 |
| The New Social History in France | p. 94 |
| The Social Imaginary of the French Revolution: The Third Estate, the National Guard, and the Absent Bourgeoisie | p. 106 |
| Service and Servitude in the World of Labor: Servants in England, 1750-1820 | p. 124 |
| Moving Accidents: The Emergence of Sentimental Probability | p. 137 |
| The Secret History of Domesticity: Private, Public, and the Division of Knowledge | p. 171 |
| The Cultural Contradictions of Feminism in the French Revolution | p. 190 |
| Misogyny and Feminism: The Case of Mary Wollstonecraft | p. 203 |
| Parallel Stages: Theatrical and Political Representation in Early Modern and Revolutionary France | p. 218 |
| On Queen Bees and Being Queens: A Late-Eighteenth-Century "Cultural Revolution"? | p. 251 |
| Index | p. 281 |
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ISBN: 9780520229679
ISBN-10: 0520229673
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 306
Published: 13th February 2002
Dimensions (cm): 22.6 x 15.5
x 1.909
Weight (kg): 0.492
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