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The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France
Julia V. Douthwaite
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Description for The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France
Hardcover. "The French Revolution" brings to mind violent mobs, the guillotine, and Madame Defarge, but it was also a publishing revolution: more than 1,200 novels were published between 1789 and 1804, when Napoleon declared the Revolution at an end. This book covers an account of politico-literary moment and its aftermath. Num Pages: 320 pages, 29 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 238 x 28. Weight in Grams: 616.
"The French Revolution" brings to mind violent mobs, the guillotine, and Madame Defarge, but it was also a publishing revolution: more than 1,200 novels were published between 1789 and 1804, when Napoleon declared the Revolution at an end. In this book, Julia V. Douthwaite explores how the works within this enormous corpus announced the new shapes of literature to come and reveals that vestiges of these stories can be found in novels by the likes of Mary Shelley, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Honore de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, and L. Frank Baum. Deploying political history, archival research, and textual ... Read more
"The French Revolution" brings to mind violent mobs, the guillotine, and Madame Defarge, but it was also a publishing revolution: more than 1,200 novels were published between 1789 and 1804, when Napoleon declared the Revolution at an end. In this book, Julia V. Douthwaite explores how the works within this enormous corpus announced the new shapes of literature to come and reveals that vestiges of these stories can be found in novels by the likes of Mary Shelley, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Honore de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, and L. Frank Baum. Deploying political history, archival research, and textual ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226160580
SKU
V9780226160580
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About Julia V. Douthwaite
Julia V. Douthwaite is professor of French at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Exotic Women: Literary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancien Regime France and The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France
"Julia V. Douthwaite succeeds admirably in showing the interrelations between history and literature and introduces the reader to a long-neglected body of work. By showing the role of revolutionary fiction and its reinterpretation by later writers, this important book fills a significant gap in the history of literature." (Marie-Helene Huet, Princeton University)"