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• catalog abstract "This study describes how three prominent Anglo-American writers changed their early views of the French Revolution after the Terror of 1793-94. Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Helen Maria Williams illustrate the crisis in representation confronting writers who had previously committed themselves to the Revolution of 1789. They were the principal participants in the ongoing revision of the French Revolution, not only because of their contemporary prominence, but also because they were living in revolutionary France during the Terror. The crisis in representation was, for them, intensely public and personal. All three responded by "writing out" the crisis - in the simultaneous sense of erasure and exposure - by reconceiving the Revolution through strategies and themes of repetition. Wollstonecraft and Williams explained the Terror as a "counterrevolutionary" return to the past, and both represented it as a repetitive version of Shakespeare's Macbeth. This intertextual revision is also resonant in the works of Thomas Paine. His historical contribution to the crisis was the recreation of himself as the revolutionary writer who had literally authored the American Revolution that, in turn, had "caused" the French Revolution. For Paine, Wollstonecraft, and Williams, the crisis in representation was actually a variety of representational crises. That they returned to the paradigms of the past to resolve the crisis signified that they were rewriting the Revolution within the textual space of the tradition they had originally opposed.".
• catalog contributor b10525444.
• catalog coverage "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Foreign public opinion.".
• catalog coverage "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Historiography.".
• catalog coverage "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Literature and the revolution.".
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description "1. In the Beginning: Thomas Paine's Two Revolutionary Careers -- 2. Paine's Revolutionary Comedy: The Bastille and October Days in the Rights of Man -- 3. Revisionist Patricide: Thomas Paine's Letter to George Washington -- 4. From the Beginning: Paine's Obsession with Origins and The Age of Reason -- 5. Wollstonecraft and the French Revolution -- 6. Wollstonecraft, Macbeth, and the Death of Louis XVI -- 7. The Bastille's Blood: The October Days, Barriers, and Marie Antoinette -- 8. The Inevitability of Progress: A Revolution Within, Happier Far -- 9. Helen Maria Williams and the French Revolution -- 10. Comedy, Tragedy, and Romance in William's Letters from France -- 11. The Sublime and Beautiful in Williams' Letters from France.".
• catalog description "All three responded by "writing out" the crisis - in the simultaneous sense of erasure and exposure - by reconceiving the Revolution through strategies and themes of repetition. Wollstonecraft and Williams explained the Terror as a "counterrevolutionary" return to the past, and both represented it as a repetitive version of Shakespeare's Macbeth. This intertextual revision is also resonant in the works of Thomas Paine. His historical contribution to the crisis was the recreation of himself as the revolutionary writer who had literally authored the American Revolution that, in turn, had "caused" the French Revolution.".
• catalog description "For Paine, Wollstonecraft, and Williams, the crisis in representation was actually a variety of representational crises. That they returned to the paradigms of the past to resolve the crisis signified that they were rewriting the Revolution within the textual space of the tradition they had originally opposed.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-268) and index.".
• catalog description "This study describes how three prominent Anglo-American writers changed their early views of the French Revolution after the Terror of 1793-94. Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Helen Maria Williams illustrate the crisis in representation confronting writers who had previously committed themselves to the Revolution of 1789. They were the principal participants in the ongoing revision of the French Revolution, not only because of their contemporary prominence, but also because they were living in revolutionary France during the Terror. The crisis in representation was, for them, intensely public and personal.".
• catalog extent "273 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Crisis in representation.".
• catalog identifier "0838637140 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Crisis in representation.".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
• catalog relation "Crisis in representation.".
• catalog spatial "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Foreign public opinion.".
• catalog spatial "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Historiography.".
• catalog spatial "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Literature and the revolution.".
• catalog subject "944.04 20".
• catalog subject "DC158.8 .B55 1997".
• catalog subject "Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 Views on French Revolution.".
• catalog subject "Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.".
• catalog subject "Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827 Views on French Revolution.".
• catalog subject "Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827.".
• catalog subject "Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 Views on French Revolution.".
• catalog subject "Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. In the Beginning: Thomas Paine's Two Revolutionary Careers -- 2. Paine's Revolutionary Comedy: The Bastille and October Days in the Rights of Man -- 3. Revisionist Patricide: Thomas Paine's Letter to George Washington -- 4. From the Beginning: Paine's Obsession with Origins and The Age of Reason -- 5. Wollstonecraft and the French Revolution -- 6. Wollstonecraft, Macbeth, and the Death of Louis XVI -- 7. The Bastille's Blood: The October Days, Barriers, and Marie Antoinette -- 8. The Inevitability of Progress: A Revolution Within, Happier Far -- 9. Helen Maria Williams and the French Revolution -- 10. Comedy, Tragedy, and Romance in William's Letters from France -- 11. The Sublime and Beautiful in Williams' Letters from France.".
• catalog title "Crisis in representation : Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams, and the rewriting of the French Revolution / Steven Blakemore.".
• catalog type "text".