The Frankenstein of 1790 and other lost chapters from revolutionary France
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press
2012
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- A revolution in literary studies
- Precursors
- On revolutionary fiction: definitions
- Significance for readers of 1789-1803
- Significance for readers of our time
- From fish seller to suffragist: the women's march on Versailles
- Introduction
- The anxiety of ambivalence: journalism of october 1789
- Poissard and amazonian pamphletry
- The poissarde's cultural heritage
- Fictions of amazonian ambition
- Coda: how the fish seller became a suffragist, thanks to L. Frank Baum
- The Frankenstein of the French revolution
- Introduction
- Legislating invention in 1790-91
- Inventors and inventions in the public eye
- An object lesson on automaton politics
- The automaton between le miroir and Frankenstein: Condorcet, Doppet and Hoffmann
- Coda: Frankenstein's creature in the mechanical mold
- The once and only pitiful king
- Introduction
- Part one: Varennes
- Part two: les adieux
- Coda: how fatherhood failed the king, according to Balzac
- How literature ended the terror
- Introduction
- The revolutionary tribunal
- Prisoners' tales
- Crime narratives
- Coda: how literature ended the terror
- In guise of a conclusion.
