Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Release date corrections and some new upcoming releases

The following are some corrected dates for Upcoming/New Releases:

A New Dictionary of the French Revolution by Richard Ballard (November 15, 2011)

Citoyennes: Women and the Ideal of Citizenship in Eighteenth-Century France by Annie K. Smart (Dec. 16, 2011)

The Perfect Foil: Francois-Andre Vincent and the Revolution in French Painting by Elizabeth C. Mansfield (Dec. 22, 2011)

The Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery by Rachel Hope Cleves [New Paperback Edition] (Jan. 12, 2012)

Royal Censorship of Books in Eighteenth-Century France by Raymond Birn (Feb. 1, 2012)

Bastards: Politics, Family, and Law in Early Modern France by Matthew Gerber (Feb 1, 2012)

Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life by Peter McPhee (March 13, 2012)

Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution by Ffion Mair Jones (Apr. 15, 2012)

Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opera, 1789-1794 by Mark Darlow (April 25, 2012)

A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment by Philipp Blom [New Paperback Edition] (May 18, 2012)

JEAN PAUL MARAT: Tribune of the French Revolution (Revolutionary Lives) by Clifford Connor (May 22, 2012)

Making Way for Genius: The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New
by Kathleen Kete (May 29, 2012)

In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution by Sophie Wahnich and Slavoj Zizek (August 2, 2012)

Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution (Legenda Main Series) by Katherine Astbury (August 30, 2012)

And here are some additional releases in Non-Fiction and Fiction:

Fiction

Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey (May 15, 2012)

Paris, 1774. At the tender age of eighteen, Marie Antoinette ascends to the French throne alongside her husband, Louis XVI. But behind the extravagance of the young queen’s elaborate silk gowns and dizzyingly high coiffures, she harbors deeper fears for her future and that of the Bourbon dynasty.


From the early growing pains of marriage to the joy of conceiving a child, from her passion for Swedish military attaché Axel von Fersen to the devastating Affair of the Diamond Necklace, Marie Antoinette tries to rise above the gossip and rivalries that encircle her. But as revolution blossoms in America, a much larger threat looms beyond the gilded gates of Versailles—one that could sweep away the French monarchy forever.

Non-Fiction 

A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment by Philipp Blom [New Paperback Edition] (May 18, 2012)

A Wicked Company tells the remarkable story of Baron Thierry Holbach’s Parisian salon, an epicenter of freethinking that brought together the greatest minds of the 18th century. Over wine-soaked dinner parties, the finest intellectuals of the Western world—figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Adam Smith, Horace Walpole, and Benjamin Franklin—matched wits and scandalized one another with their own ever-more-provocative ideas. Writers of genius all, full of wit and courage (but also personal contradictions, doubts, conflicts of conscience, and their fair share of open arguments and love affairs), this group of friends embodied an astonishing radicalism in European thought, so uncompromising and bold that its bracing, liberating, humanist vision has still not been fully realized. As acclaimed historian Philipp Blom shows, these thinkers’ analysis of our culture remains as valid as it was then, and has lost little of its potential to shock—or to force us to confront with new eyes debates about our society and its future.

Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution (Legenda Main Series) 
by Katherine Astbury (August 30, 2012)

During the French Revolution, traditional literary forms such as the sentimental novel and the moral tale dominate literary production. At first glance, it might seem that these texts are unaffected by the upheavals in France; in fact they reveal not only a surprising engagement with politics but also an internalised emotional response to the turbulence of the period. In this innovative and wide-ranging study, Katherine Astbury uses trauma theory as a way of exploring the apparent contradiction between the proliferation of non-political literary texts and the events of the Revolution. Through the narratives of established bestselling literary figures of the Ancien Regime (primarily Marmontel, Madame de Genlis and Florian), and the early works of first generation Romantics Madame de Stael and Chateaubriand, she traces how the Revolution shapes their writing, providing an intriguing new angle on cultural production of the 1790s.Katherine Astbury is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Warwick.

In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution by Sophie Wahnich and Slavoj Zizek (August 2, 2012)

For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. But recent decades have brought a marked change in sensibility. The Revolution is no longer judged in terms of historical necessity but rather by “timeless” standards of morality. In this succinct essay, Sophie Wahnich explains how, contrary to prevailing interpretations, the institution of Terror sought to put a brake on legitimate popular violence—in Danton’s words, to “be terrible so as to spare the people the need to be so”—and was subsequently subsumed in a logic of war. The Terror was “a process welded to a regime of popular sovereignty, the only alternatives being to defeat tyranny or die for liberty.”

1 comment:

  1. Revolution is not the answer to victory of a country but a start of war. We can gain our victory through peace talks.

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