...mob] were slowly moved along, amidst the horrid yells, and shrilling screams, and frantic dances, and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations...hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women." 7. This process was slowest in France, Habermas states, because for much of the century "the king largely...

...attack on the French Revolution is built around a contrast between ugly, murderous sansculotte hags ("the furies of hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women") and the soft femininity of Marie Antoinette, who escaped the crowd to "seek refuge at the feet of a...

...attack on the French Revolution is built around a contrast between ugly, murderous sansculotte hags ('the furies of hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women') and the soft femininity of Marie Antoinette, who escaped the crowd to 'seek refuge at the feet of a...

...Revolution, exemplified by the overthrow of the monarchy, as an unnatural spectacle, the work of " 'furies of hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women' ": an "unnatural, feminine violence, a reversal of the natural order of strength and weakness; perhaps...

...train, were slowly moved along, amidst the horrid yells, and shrilling screams, and frantic dances, and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations...hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women' (Page 106). Probably you mean women who gained a livelihood by selling vegetables or fish, who never...

...train were slowly moved along, amidst the horrid yells, and shrilling screams, and frantic dances, and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations...hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women. " 13 Though vivid, Burke's denunciation was hardly fair. There was a long tradition in France of women's...

...return to Paris, 'moved along, amidst the horrid yells, and shrilling screams, and frantic dances and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations...hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women' (Burke 1965 [1790]: 85). Burke's depiction of working women points to his support for monarchy and...

...in the Reflections, is urged on by 'the horrid yells, and shrilling screams, and frantic dances, and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations...hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women' ( Writings 8:122) .just as Ambrosio's rape of Antonia is urged on by Matilda - who is either a fury...

...Burke describes the Frenchwomen who escorted Louis XVI from Versailles to imprisonment in Paris as "furies of hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women" (cited in Anne K. Mellor and Richard E. Matlak, British Literature 1780-1830 [Ft. Worth: Harcourt Brace,...

...from Versailles back to Paris "amidst the horrid yells, and shrilling screams, and frantic dances, and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations...hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women" (Reflections, 165). Wollstonecraft deflates Burke's display of outraged sensibility with a precise...