A Natural History of Revolution : : Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination, 1789-1794 / / Mary Ashburn Miller.
How did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from Rousseau's writings to Old Regime protest tactics. A Natural History of Revoluti...
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Miller, Mary Ashburn, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Natural History of Revolution : Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination, 1789-1794 / Mary Ashburn Miller. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (248 p.) : 13 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ordering a Disordered World -- 2. Terrible Like an Earthquake: Violence as a "Revolution of the Earth" -- 3. Lightning Strikes -- 4. Pure Mountain, Corruptive Swamp -- 5 . "Mountain, become a Volcano" -- Conclusion: Revolutionary Like Nature, Natural Like a Revolution -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star How did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from Rousseau's writings to Old Regime protest tactics. A Natural History of Revolution suggests that it is perhaps on a different shelf of the Enlightenment library that we might find the best clues for understanding the French Revolution: namely, in studies of the natural world. In their attempts to portray and explain the events of the Revolution, political figures, playwrights, and journalists often turned to the book of nature: phenomena such as hailstorms and thunderbolts found their way into festivals, plays, and political speeches as descriptors of revolutionary activity. The particular way that revolutionaries deployed these metaphors drew on notions derived from the natural science of the day about regeneration, purgation, and balance.In examining a series of tropes (earthquakes, lightning, mountains, swamps, and volcanoes) that played an important role in the public language of the Revolution, A Natural History of Revolution reveals that understanding the use of this natural imagery is fundamental to our understanding of the Terror. Eighteenth-century natural histories had demonstrated that in the natural world, apparent disorder could lead to a restored equilibrium, or even regeneration. This logic drawn from the natural world offered the revolutionaries a crucial means of explaining and justifying revolutionary transformation. If thunder could restore balance in the atmosphere, and if volcanic eruptions could create more fertile soil, then so too could episodes of violence and disruption in the political realm be portrayed as necessary for forging a new order in revolutionary France. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Natural disasters Political aspects France History 18th century. Rhetoric Political aspects France History 18th century. Violence Political aspects France History 18th century. Europe. History Of Science. History. HISTORY / Europe / France. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801449420 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801460845 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801460845 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801460845/original |
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