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Days of Glory?: Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution
Valerie Mainz
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Description for Days of Glory?: Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution
Hardback. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 315 pages, 38 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; ACQ; ACV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 190 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of `citizenship' and of service to `la Patrie'. The opening lines of the Marseillaise are grandly declamatory: Allons enfants de la Patrie/le jour de gloire est arrive! or, in English: Arise, children of the Homeland/The day of glory has arrived! What do these words mean in their later eighteenth-century French context? What was gloire and how was it changed by ... Read more
This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of `citizenship' and of service to `la Patrie'. The opening lines of the Marseillaise are grandly declamatory: Allons enfants de la Patrie/le jour de gloire est arrive! or, in English: Arise, children of the Homeland/The day of glory has arrived! What do these words mean in their later eighteenth-century French context? What was gloire and how was it changed by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850
Condition
New
Weight
527g
Number of Pages
298
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137542939
SKU
V9781137542939
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Ref
99-15
About Valerie Mainz
Valerie Mainz is Senior Lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, UK, having previously worked in both the commercial and subsidised sectors of the theatre. She has curated exhibitions on the French Revolution at the University Gallery, University of Leeds in 1998, at the Musee de la Revolution francaise, ... Read more
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