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Reimagining Society in 18th Century French Literature

Jonas Ross Kjærgård
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Bourgeois Spirit
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Choderlos De Laclos
citizen rights theory
De Francheville
debate
declaration
Declaration Debate
Declaration Proposal
Eighteenth Century French Literature
eighteenth-century French political imagination
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Exponential Logic
French Enlightenment thought
French Revolutionary Theater
Intellectual Political History
Intensive Universalism
Jonas Ross Kjaergard
Julien Offray De La Mettrie
Le Fils Naturel
les
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Les Victimes
madame
Madame De Merteuil
Madame De Volanges
maslan
National Assembly Deputies
Olympe De Gouges
paris
Partial Members
political anthropology
revolution
Sixth Bureau
social forms hierarchy
sovereignty transition
susan
Susan Maslan
tableau
Tableau De Paris
utopian literature analysis
volanges
Writing World History
Young Man

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138611740
  • Weight: 600g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Jun 2018
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

The French revolutionary shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty came clothed in a new political language, a significant part of which was a strange coupling of happiness and rights. In Old Regime ideology, Frenchmen were considered subjects who had no need of understanding why what was prescribed to them would be in the interest of their happiness. The 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen equipped the French with a list of inalienable rights and if society would respect those rights, the happiness of all would materialize.

This volume explores the authors of fictional literature who contributed alongside pamphleteers, politicians, and philosophers to the establishment of this new political arena, filled with sometimes vague, yet insisting notions of happiness and rights. The shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty and the corollary transition from subjects to citizens culminated in the summer of 1789 but it was preceded by an immense piece of imaginative work.

About Jonas Ross Kjaergard
Jonas Ross Kjærgård, PhD, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University and recipient of the EliteResearch travel grant. He acquired his PhD degree at Aarhus University, Denmark, with a dissertation on French Revolutionary rights and literature. He has published articles and book chapters on literature and the French revolution and edited the volume Discursive Framings of Human Rights: Negotiating Agency and Victimhood (with Karen-Margrethe Simonsen), published by Birkbeck Law Press. He has begun a new research project on the literary history of the Haitian revolution.

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