Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, Part II

Stephen Bending (Autor)

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2064 Seiten

2008
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
978-1-85196-866-4 (ISBN)

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Part of a seven-volume facsimile set, this volume comprises firsthand accounts of France in the 1790s. It includes Helen Maria Williams' letters which narrate the fall of Robespierre in 1794 and her 1798 book on Switzerland which comments sceptically on the necessary coexistence of liberty with peace.

Stephen Bending

Part II Volume 4 A Sketch of Modern France (1798) 'By a Lady', though equally possibly by its putative editor, Christopher Lake Moody, the epistolatory Sketch of Modern France relates travel through that country in the turbulent years of the Directory, where the slogan 'liberty or death' names a real and urgent choice. Volumes 5-7 Anne Plumptre, A Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in France, 1802-5 (1810) Plumptre's Narrative combines a cosmopolitan travel narrative of southern France in the early 1800s with reflections on the 1790s, anecdotes from the Revolution, of the fall of Robespierre and a lengthy defence of Napoleon against the accusations of his English critics, looking back on the revolutionary period before the Terror as a moment of high ideals and now defeated aspirations.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2008
Reihe/Serie	Chawton House Library: Women’s Travel Writings
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	3720 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-85196-866-0 / 1851968660
ISBN-13	978-1-85196-866-4 / 9781851968664
Zustand	Neuware