{"product_id":"festivals-and-the-french-revolution-9780674298842","title":"Festivals and the French Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFestivals and the French Revolution—the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of Reason, and the oddly pretentious cult of the Supreme Being. Every history of the period includes some mention of festivals; Ozouf shows us that they were much more than bizarre marginalia to the revolutionary process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most brilliant books about the French Revolution written in recent years. In a dazzling analysis of revolutionary festivals, Mona Ozouf takes up the question of why revolutionaries of all stripes seemed so obsessed with public celebration… An unusually powerful and readable work of serious history. -- Edward Berenson * Los Angeles Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliantly conceived, cogently argued and a pleasure to read…this volume…was recognized at once as a work to reckon with, and Alan Sheridan’s luminous translation now makes it available in English. -- Eugen Weber * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eOzouf’s remarkable insights into the festivals and the revolution…offer fresh ways of understanding the immense effort the revolutionaries made both to destroy the \u003ci\u003eancien régime\u003c\/i\u003e and to perpetuate an emerging secular, liberal order. -- Charles Rearick * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most magisterial and original contributions to the interpretation of the French Revolution to appear in this decade. -- Carla Hesse * Eighteenth-Century Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Lynn Hunt   The Republican Calendar    Brief Chronology of the French Revolution   Introduction    I. The History of the Revolutionary Festival   The Revolution as Festival    History of the Festivals, History of the Sects    Boredom and Disgust    II. The Festival of the Federation: Model and Reality   Riot and Festival: The \"Wild\" Federations    The Federative Festivals    The Paris Federation    A New Festival?   The Festival of All the French?    III. The Festival above the Parties: 1792   The Norm and the Exception    Two Antagonistic Festivals?    The Unity of Tragedy     IV. Mockery and Revolution: 1793-1794   The \"Other\" Festival    Where, When, with Whom?    Reasonable Reason    Violence and the Festival    V. Return to the Enlightenment: 1794-1799   The \"Happy Nation\"    The System of Brumaire, Year IV    VI. The Festival and Space   Space without Qualities    The Symbolic Mapping-Out    The Renovation of a Ceremonial Space: The Example of Caen    The Resistance of Paris    The Space-Time of the Revolution    VII. The Festival and Time   Beginning    Dividing Up    Commemorating    Ending    VIII. The Future of the Festival: Festival and Pedagogy   \"The Schools of the Mature Man\"    The Power of Images    The Correct Use of Images    Nothing Goes without Saying      IX. Popular Life and the Revolutionary Festival   A Shameful Ethnology    History of a Failure    Revolutionary Symbolism and Peasant Tradition    The Mai sauvage    A Pedagogical Tree    From the Maypole to the Tree    A Break     X.  The Revolutionary Festival: A Transfer of Sacrality   Horror vacui   The Meaning of a Few Borrowings   The Meaning of Purging    Abbreviations   Notes   Bibliography   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52090719011159,"sku":"9780674298842","price":35.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674298842.jpg?v=1762273191","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/festivals-and-the-french-revolution-9780674298842","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}