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Davidson, Denise Z.

 
9781501784880: Surviving Revolution: Bourgeois Lives and Letters
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ISBN 10 : 1501784889 ISBN 13 : 9781501784880
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Surviving Revolution explores how two wealthy and well-connected families with roots in Lyon responded to the French Revolution and the resulting transformations. In building a new political system based on liberty, equality, and fraternity, the French Revolution encouraged both individuals and families to recognize their power to shape the world through political action, rethink their strategies in negotiating intimate relations and family life, and assess both terrifying new risks and enticing opportunities for advancement.

Denise Z. Davidson traces two families' trajectories and weaves together the strategies they employed to survive and hopefully thrive in the decades that followed the Revolution. Their private correspondence shows that affect and interest, intimacy and property, are mutually constitutive, and cannot be "thought" separately. Her analysis reveals what it meant to be bourgeois, how gender played a role in the formation of class identities, and how family and emotional life overlapped with other arenas. These social and cultural themes are woven into the narrative through the stories told in the families' letters.

By viewing dramatic historical events through the eyes of people who lived through them, Surviving Revolution illuminates how the practices of everyday life shaped emerging notions of bourgeois identity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Denise Z. Davidson is Professor of History and Director of the Humanities Research Center at Georgia State University. She is the author of France After Revolution and coauthor of Le roman conjugal.

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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1501784889
ISBN 13 
9781501784880
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
324
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ISBN 10 :  1501783408 ISBN 13 :  9781501783401
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2025
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