Sanja Perovic

The Calendar in Revolutionary France

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study explores the reinvention of the calendar during the French Revolution and its long-lasting cultural effects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9781107566453
• ISBN-10: 1107566452
• Artikelnr.: 43042716

Autorenporträt

Sanja Perovic is a Reader in Eighteenth-Century French Studies at King's College London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. From myth to lived experience: the literary and cultural origins of the revolutionary calendar
2. Between the volcano and the sun: Sylvain Maréchal against his time
3. History and nature: the double origins of Republican time
4. Death by volcano: revolutionary terror and the problem of year II
5. Unenthusiastic memory: imagining the festive calendar
6. Perishable Enlightenment: wearing out the calendar
7. The end of the lyrical Revolution and the calendar's piecemeal decline
Conclusion
Chronology of Gregorian and Republican calendars
Bibliography
Index.