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Mourning Glory: The Will of the French Revolution (Critical Authors & Issues) [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Marie Helene Huet (Author)
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"In Mourning Glory Huet provides an arresting analysis of revolutionary will as the flash point between theory and everyday life-an analysis that brings out the unsettling allure of a revolutionary sublime. She also carefully examines the often phantasmatic representations, historiographical and filmic, that attempt to remember such a will, dramatize its exponents, and address its tragic yet glorious effects."—Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University



"This is without doubt a remarkable book. It is elegantly and passionately written; it is brilliant through and through. . . . It should appeal to all readers who are interested in the way cultures deal with their ancestry and their dead; the way they articulate their memory and, in the end, write their history."—Pierre Saint-Amand, Brown University

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  • Hardcover: 223 pages
  • Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr (August 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0812234146
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812234145
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,889,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly well researched analysis, November 13, 2000
"Mouring Glory" is certainly one of my favorite historical accounts of the French Revolution because it reaches beyond the conventional interpretations of this frightening (but fascinating) period of history. Huet gives the reader an informative analysis of the Revolutionary ideology of the sublime, and an incredibly well researched look into how and why the Revolution's idealistic leaders are portrayed as they are. The author gives insight into the Revolutionary will, and how it has been dramatized and incorrectly interpreted in an effort to remember the Revolution and its disturbing but hauntingly mesmerizing effects.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, thought-provoking, December 11, 2010
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I very, very much enjoyed Huet's essays on the ideas and the course of the French Revolution from Rousseau through Robespierre and Saint Just to modern interpretations. The book's structure makes sense and Huet's style is always geared toward the readable. Mourning Glory's focus is on the relationships between forces, between nature and law, between the present and the past, between the throne and the people and how the "will" (the intent, the resolve) of the revolution evolved from an ideal of liberty and happiness to the desperate measures of desperate men and finally to the legacy. An amazing book.
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IN 1756, UNDER THE ARTICLE Thunder, Diderot's Encyclopedia provided the following information on how to protect oneself from thunderbolts: The thunderbolt can be broken up or turned away by the sound of several large bells or by shooting a cannon; this stimulates in the air a great agitation that disperses the thunderbolt into separate part; nut it is essential to take care not to toll the bells when the cloud is directly overhead, for then the cloud may split and drop its thunderbolt. Read the first page
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sublime project, last discourse
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French Revolution, Festival of the Supreme Being, Section des Piques, Collection Viollet, Cult of the Supreme Being, Cult of Reason, Committee of Public Safety, Champ de Mars, Mona Ozouf, Monsieur de Vissery, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Louis Blanc, Madame Roland, National Convention, Nationale de France, Public Instruction, Revolutionary Tribunal, American Revolution, Cabinet des Estampes, Festival of Reason, French Republic, Great Terror, Kings of Judah, Temple of Isis
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