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The Family Romance of the French Revolution Paperback - 1992

by Lynn Hunt


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This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a multidisciplinary investigation of the foundations of modern politics. "Family Romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and joining one of higher social standing. Lynn Hunt uses the term broadly to describe the images of the familial order underlying revolutionary politics. In a wide-ranging account using novels, engravings, paintings, speeches, newspaper editorials, pornographic writing, and revolutionary legislation about the family, Hunt shows that politics were experienced through the grid of the family romance.

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This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a daring multidisciplinary investigation of the imaginative foundations of modern politics. "Family romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and belonging to one of higher social standing. In Freud's view, the family romance was a way for individuals to fantasize about their place in the social order. Hunt uses the term more broadly, to describe the images of the familial order underlying revolutionary politics. She investigates the narratives of family relations that structured the collective political unconscious. Most Europeans in the eighteenth century thought of their rulers as fathers and of their nations as families writ large. The French Revolution violently disrupted that patriarchal model of authority and raised troubling questions about what was to replace it. The king and queen were executed after dramatic separate trials. Prosecutors in the trial of the queen accused her of exerting undue influence on the king and his ministers, engaging in sexual debauchery, and even committing incest with her eight-year-old son. Hunt focuses on the meaning of killing the king-father and the queen-mother and what these ritual sacrifices meant to the establishment of a new model of politics. In a wide-ranging account that uses novels, engravings, paintings, speeches, newspaper editorials, pornographic writing, and revolutionary legislation about the family, Hunt shows that politics were experienced through the grid of the family romance.

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  • Title The Family Romance of the French Revolution
  • Author Lynn Hunt
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 213
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 1992-06-11
  • ISBN 9780520082700 / 0520082702
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.01 x 0.62 in (22.81 x 15.27 x 1.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Library of Congress subjects Regicides, Family - France - History - 18th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91026852
  • Dewey Decimal Code 944.04

About the author

Lynn Hunt is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of several books, including Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (California, 1984), and the editor of The New Cultural History (California, 1989).
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