Such Politics: Eminent Persons of the French Revolution - Couverture souple

Eskin, Stanley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1469985853 ISBN 13 : 9781469985855

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Such Politics is a collection of short biographies of some of the main players of the French Revolution, covering a broad sampling of the political spectrum. Through these it seeks to retell the story of the Revolution for a reasonably educated audience that may have forgotten much and welcomes a fairly sophisticated refresher course. Action and words: these were the axes of the Revolution, and the words were far more prominent than the actions. Much of the time there was little to be done, but always there was much to be said. This is the subject of Such Politics: to ask what, after all, did Robespierre do? What did Mirabeau do? What Lafayette? Who, anyway, was Madame Roland? The unfortunate "rien" that was Louis XVI's diary entry for July 14, 1789, has plagued his memory ever since, but it was equally applicable to his revolutionary cousin, the duc d'Orléans, and to his two brothers. From another perspective, the period of the French Revolution consisted largely of one power vacuum after another, with most of our actors throwing themselves—or being shoved—into it to fill it, almost always unsuccessfully. Such Politics tells the story of the Revolution as an anthology of exciting personal failures.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Stanley Eskin holds an A.B. from Columbia College in classics, an M.A. in English, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature, specializing in English, French and Italian literature of the renaissance. He has taught at Yale, U.C. Berkeley, Bennington College, and the University of Massachusetts (Boston). He is the author of Simenon: A Critical Biography, which, in the Italian translation, won the premio letterario Giovanni Comiso for biography. He has also published numerous articles in scholarly and critical journals, including PMLA, The Texas Quarterly, Bucknell Review, etc. He has received a Fullbright Fellowship and an ACLS Study Fellowship, and has twice been a Fullbright Professor in Central America. He lives in Brookline, MA. With his wife, Barbara, a painter.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1469985853
• ISBN 13: 9781469985855
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 346