Visualizing the nation : gender, representation, and revolution in eighteenth-century France /
Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Although women's political participation was curtailed, female allegories of liberty, justice, and the republic played a crucial role in the passage from old regime to modern society. In her lavishly illustrated and gracefully wri...
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| বিন্যাস: | Licensed eBooks |
| ভাষা: | ইংরেজি |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
2001.
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv3s8m49 |
| সংক্ষিপ্ত: | Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Although women's political participation was curtailed, female allegories of liberty, justice, and the republic played a crucial role in the passage from old regime to modern society. In her lavishly illustrated and gracefully written book, Joan B. Landes explores this paradox within the workings of revolutionary visual culture and traces the interaction between pictorial and textual political arguments. Landes highlights the widespread circulation of images of the female body, notwithstanding the political leadership's suspicions of the dangers of feminine influence and the seductions of visual imagery. The use of caricatures and allegories contributed to the destruction of the masculinized images of hierarchic absolutism and to forging new roles for men and women in both the intimate and public arenas. Landes tells the fascinating story of how the depiction of the nation as a desirable female body worked to eroticize patriotism and to bind male subjects to the nation-state. Despite their political subordination, women too were invited to identify with the project of nationalism. Recent views of the French Revolution have emphasized linguistic concerns; in contrast, Landes stresses the role of visual cognition in fashioning ideas of nationalism and citizenship. Her book demonstrates as well that the image is often a site of contestation, as individual viewers may respond to it in unexpected, even subversive, ways. |
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| দৈহিক বর্ননা: | 1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : illustrations |
| বিন্যাস: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| গ্রন্থ-পঞ্জী: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index. |
| আইসবিএন: | 9781501727535 1501727532 080143811X 9780801438110 0801488486 9780801488481 |