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New interpretations pointing to the multi-faceted nature of the French Revolution.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction by Gail M. Schwab and John R. Jeanneney Providence for the Revolutionary People by Erica Joy Mannucci Writing Revolution: Michelet's History of the French Revolution by Tom Conner Sexual Politics: Marivaux's "La Colonie" by Jeanne Fuchs "CAZOTTE" and the COUNTER-REVOLUTION or the Art of Losing One's Head by Claudine Hunting The Concept of Virtue in Literature and Politics during the French Revolution of 1789: Sade and Robespierre by Gislinde Seybert Mme. De StAEl: Comparative Politics as Revolutionary Practice by Susan Tenenbaum Revolution in the Boudoir: Mme. Roland's Subversion of Rousseau's Feminine Ideals by Mary Trouille French Women Writers and the Revolution: Preliminary Thoughts by Catherine R. Montfort The Sublimity of Speech as Action: The Myth of Mirabeau, 1791-1848 by Patricia A. Ward French Theater and Revolution: The Eve and the Aftermath by Mario Hamlet-Metz Rewriting the Revolutionary Past in Les Prussiens en Lorraine by Barbara T. Cooper Prosper Merimee is Thinking the Revolution by Evelyn Gould Georges Sorel and the "Dreyfusard Revolution" by Jeffrey Mehlman Revolution in the Education sentimentale: Structure, Theory, and History by Gail M. Schwab Cities, Bourgeois, and the French Revolution by Charles Tilly The Nobility's New Clothes: Revisionism and the Survival of the Nobility during the French Revolution by John Dunne Suffrage and Citizenship in the French Revolution by Malcolm Crook AUX URNES, CITOYENS! The Transformation of French Electoral Participation (1789-1870) by Melvin Edelstein The Impact of the French Revolution on London Reform Societies by Marilyn Morris The French Revolution and Spain by Richard Herr Republican Revolution or Absolutist Reform? by Uffe Ostergaard The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact on Spanish-American Independence by Gregory Ludlow Waves Breaking on a Distant Shore: Puerto Rico in the Era of the French Revolution by Julia Ortiz Griffin The Influence of the French Revolution on Lenin's Conception of the Russian Revolution by George Jackson Uses of the Past: Bolshevism and the French Revolutionary Tradition by Gabriel Schoenfeld Marianne Revisited: Anti-Republican Political Caricature, 1880-1900 by Willa Z. Silverman The Lost Legacy of the French Revolution and the Persecution of French Jewry in Vichy France by Sondra M. Rubenstein Index

About the Author

GAIL M. SCHWAB is Associate Professor of French at Hofstra University. She has published on Flaubert and the feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray.

JOHN R. JEANNENEY is Associate Professor of History at Hofstra University. His publications are focused on the history of European public policies of natural resource management.