Teaching Representations of the French Revolution (Options for Teaching #47) (Hardcover)

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By Julia Douthwaite Viglione (Editor), Antoinette Sol (Editor), Catriona Seth (Editor)
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In many ways the French Revolution--a series of revolutions, in fact, whose end has arguably not yet arrived--is modernity in action. Beginning in reform, it blossomed into wholesale attempts to remake society, uprooting the clergy and aristocracy, valorizing mass movements, and setting secular ideologies, including nationalism, in motion. Unusually manifold and complicated, the revolution affords many teaching opportunities and challenges. This volume helps instructors seeking to connect developments today--terrorism, propaganda, extremism--with the events that began in 1789, contextualizing for students a world that seems always unmoored and in crisis.

The volume supports the teaching of the revolution's ongoing project across geographic areas (from Haiti, Latin America, and New Orleans to Spain, Germany, and Greece), governing ideologies (human rights, secularism, liberty), and literatures (from well-known to newly rediscovered texts). Interdisciplinary, intercultural, and insurgent, the volume has an energy that reflects its subject.

Product Details
ISBN: 9781603294652
ISBN-10: 1603294651
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Publication Date: August 1st, 2019
Pages: 368
Language: English
Series: Options for Teaching