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The calendar in revolutionary France [electronic resource] perceptions of time in literature, culture, politics
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| 서명/저자사항 | The calendar in revolutionary France [electronic resource] : perceptions of time in literature, culture, politics/ Sanja Perovic. |
| 개인저자 | Perovic, Sanja. |
| 발행사항 | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (pages cm.). |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Perovic, Sanja. Calendar in revolutionary France. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107025950 |
| ISBN | 9781139526470 (electronic bk.) 1139526472 (electronic bk.) |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. From myth to lived experience: the literary and cultural origins of the revolutionary calendar; 2. Between the volcano and the sun: Sylvain Maréchal against his time; 3. History and nature: the double origins of Republican time; 4. Death by volcano: revolutionary terror and the problem of year II; 5. Unenthusiastic memory: imagining the festive calendar; 6. Perishable Enlightenment: wearing out the calendar; 7. The end of the lyrical Revolution and the calendar's piecemeal decline; Conclusion; Chronology of Gregorian and Republican calendars; Bibliography; Index. |
| 요약 | "One of the most unusual decisions of the leaders of the French Revolution - and one that had immense practical as well as symbolic impact - was to abandon customarily accepted ways of calculating date and time to create a revolutionary calendar. The experiment lasted from 1793 to 1805 and prompted all sorts of questions about the nature of time, ways of measuring it, and its relationship to individual, community, communication and creative life. This study traces the course of the revolutionary calendar, from its cultural origins to its decline and fall. Tracing the parallel stories of the calendar and the literary genius of its creator, Sylvain Maréchal, from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic era, Sanja Perovic reconsiders the status of the French Revolution as the purported 'origin' of modernity, the modern experience of time and the relationship between the imagination and political action"-- |
| 해제 | Provided by publisher. |
| 주제명(지명) | France --History --1789-1815. France --History --Revolution, 1789-1799. |
| 일반주제명 | Calendar, Republican --History. Time --Philosophy --History. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. HISTORY / Europe / France |
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