Violence and the crisis of reason. Gambling and violence: Loaisel de Tréogate as a neuroscientist? / John Dunkley ; Metaphors of popular vioence in the revolutionary debate in the wake of Edmund Burke / Oliver Ritz ; Dreaming the terror: the other stage of revolutionary violence / Stephanie Genand ; Gothic explosions: Révéroni Saint-Cyr's Pauliska ou La Perversité moderne
Violence and the (re)writing of history. The 'dix août' (10 August 1792) in literary texts / Catriona Seth ; Violence in history and the rise of the historical novel: the case of the marquis de Sade ; The everlasting trials of Jean Calas: justice, theatre and trauma in the early years of the revolution ; Violence in the theatre of the Revolution / Pierre Frantz
Violence and institutions. Violence, vulnerability and subjectivity in Sade / Thomas Wynn ; The Bastille or the 'Enfer de Dutailli de Saint-Pierre' ; Violence, terrorism and the legacy of the Enlightenment: debates around Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Revolution
Violence and morality. Violence in the work of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre / Malcolm Cook ; Violence and the monster: the private lives of the duc d'Orléans ; 'Avec une telle violence que...' : Sade's use of the term violence / Jean-Christophe Abramovici ; The sound of violence: listening to rape in Sade / Will McMorran ; Violence in the novels of Charlotte (de) Bournon-Malarme / Michel Delon.

Wynn, Thomas, 1975-, editor

edited by Thomas Wynn

Éd. Thomas Wynn

Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford

Oxford: Voltaire Foundation

STUDIES ON VOLTAIRE (SVEC), 2013:10, Oxford, ©2013

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ix, 287 pages : 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Violence and the crisis of reason. Gambling and violence: Loaisel de Tréogate as a neuroscientist? / John Dunkley ; Metaphors of popular vioence in the revolutionary debate in the wake of Edmund Burke / Oliver Ritz ; Dreaming the terror: the other stage of revolutionary violence / Stephanie Genand ; Gothic explosions: Révéroni Saint-Cyr's Pauliska ou La Perversité moderne -- Violence and the (re)writing of history. The 'dix août' (10 August 1792) in literary texts / Catriona Seth ; Violence in history and the rise of the historical novel: the case of the marquis de Sade ; The everlasting trials of Jean Calas: justice, theatre and trauma in the early years of the revolution ; Violence in the theatre of the Revolution / Pierre Frantz -- Violence and institutions. Violence, vulnerability and subjectivity in Sade / Thomas Wynn ; The Bastille or the 'Enfer de Dutailli de Saint-Pierre' ; Violence, terrorism and the legacy of the Enlightenment: debates around Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Revolution -- Violence and morality. Violence in the work of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre / Malcolm Cook ; Violence and the monster: the private lives of the duc d'Orléans ; 'Avec une telle violence que...' : Sade's use of the term violence / Jean-Christophe Abramovici ; The sound of violence: listening to rape in Sade / Will McMorran ; Violence in the novels of Charlotte (de) Bournon-Malarme / Michel Delon

Violence was an inescapable part of people's daily lives in eighteenth-century France. The Revolution in general and the Terror in particular were marked by intense outbursts of political violence, whilst the abuse of wives, children and servants was still rife in the home. But the representation of violence in its myriad forms remains aesthetically troublesome. Drawing on correspondence, pamphlets, novels and plays, authors analyse the portrayal of violence as a rational act, the basis of (re)written history, an expression of institutional power, and a challenge to morality. Contributions include explorations of: the use of the dream sequence in fiction to comprehend violence; how rhetoric can manipulate violent historical truth as documented by Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France; the political implications of commemorating the massacre at the Tuileries of 10 August 1792; how Sade's graphic descriptions of violence placed the reader in a morally ambivalent position; the differing responses of individuals subjected to brutal incarceration at Vincennes and the Bastille; the constructive force of violence as a means of creating a sense of self

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