Jean-Paul Marat: Hero and Anti-hero of the French RevolutionE. Mellen Press, 1992 - 295 páginas This study demonstrates how the image of Jean-Paul Marat, revolutionary journalist and Jacobin deputy, was manipulated, both during and after the French Revolution. A wide range of media, including funeral orations, newspapers, festival programs, song-sheets, prints and paintings, as well as the work of 19th and 20th-century historians, is utilized to demonstrate Marat's symbolic importance to the political struggles of revolutionary and post-revolutionary France. Competition between various revolutionary factions for the right to possess and define Marat's heroic image is documented, as are the ways in which that image served to legitimize and project their ideologies. Marat's image as anti-hero is also considered, with attention focussed upon moderate, federalist, and Thermidorian propaganda. Providing a full treatment of the most important hero-cult of the French Revolution, this study also identifies the importance of heroes and anti-heroes in modern political life. |
Contenido
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Friend of the People | 5 |
An End and a Beginning | 35 |
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Otras 8 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
Albert Soboul attack Aulard Bibliothèque Nationale bloodthirsty Bordeaux Bougeart Brumaire bustes de Marat Caen célébrée ceremony Chalier Charlotte Corday citizens Citoyen Convention Nationale Cordeliers Cult of Marat de-Christianization defend denounced Département deputies Discours Prononcé enemies Fatherland federalist Fête Civique France French Revolution Fréron Friend Frimaire Girondins Gorsas Hébert heroes Hilbey Histoire honour Ibid image of Marat indivisible J.P. Marat Jacobin Club Jaurès Jean Paul Marat Jeunesse Dorée jour Journal journalist juillet l'Ami du Peuple l'an deuxième l'inauguration des bustes Le Moniteur Universel Le Père Duchesne Lepeletier Marat and Lepeletier Marat et Lepelletier Marat's assassination Marat's bust Marat's image Marseille martyrs of liberty moderate Moniteur Universel Montagnards Montagne Mort de Marat Musée Carnavalet n.d. Anon pamphlet Pantheon Parisian patriotism Pelletier Père Duchesne play Pluviôse political propaganda radical represented Republic republican République Française Révolution Française revolutionary Robespierre Rousseau sans-culottes September Société Populaire symbols Théâtre tribune tribute to Marat Ventôse virtue