Sanja Perovic

The Calendar in Revolutionary France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study explores the reinvention of the calendar during the French Revolution and its long-lasting cultural effects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9781107025950
• ISBN-10: 1107025958
• Artikelnr.: 35579073

Autorenporträt

Sanja Perovic is a Reader in Eighteenth-Century French Studies at King's College London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. From myth to lived experience: the literary and cultural origins of the revolutionary calendar
2. Between the volcano and the sun: Sylvain Maréchal against his time
3. History and nature: the double origins of Republican time
4. Death by volcano: revolutionary terror and the problem of year II
5. Unenthusiastic memory: imagining the festive calendar
6. Perishable Enlightenment: wearing out the calendar
7. The end of the lyrical Revolution and the calendar's piecemeal decline
Conclusion
Chronology of Gregorian and Republican calendars
Bibliography
Index.