Mourning Glory: The Will of the French Revolution (Critical Authors and Issues) - Hardcover

Huet, Marie-Hélène

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812234146 ISBN 13: 9780812234145

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Huet, Marie Helene

About this title

About the Author

Marie-Helene Huet is M. Taylor Pyne Professor Emeritus of French and Italian at Princeton University.

Review

"This is without doubt a remarkable book. It is elegantly and passionately written; it is brilliant through and through. . . . It should appeal to all readers who are interested in the way cultures deal with their ancestry and their dead; the way they articulate their memory and, in the end, write their history."—Pierre Saint-Amand, Brown University

"In Mourning Glory Huet provides an arresting analysis of revolutionary will as the flash point between theory and everyday life-an analysis that brings out the unsettling allure of a revolutionary sublime. She also carefully examines the often phantasmatic representations, historiographical and filmic, that attempt to remember such a will, dramatize its exponents, and address its tragic yet glorious effects."—Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0812234146
• ISBN 13: 9780812234145
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 232