France after Revolution : Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order / Denise Z. Davidson.
2007
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Title
France after Revolution : Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order / Denise Z. Davidson.
Author
Davidson, Denise Z., author.
ISBN
9780674271937
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2007]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource (274 p.)
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10.4159/9780674271937 doi
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307.760944/09034
Summary
The decades following the French Revolution saw unprecedented political and social experimentation. As the Napoleonic and Restoration regimes attempted to build a stable order, ordinary city dwellers began to create their own sense of how society operated through everyday activities. Interactions between men and women--in theaters, cafes, and other public settings--helped to fashion new social norms. In this extensively researched work, Denise Z. Davidson offers a powerful reevaluation of the effects of the French Revolution, especially on women. Arguing against the view that the Revolution forced women from the public realm of informed political discussion, Davidson demonstrates that women remained highly visible in urban public life. Women of all classes moved out of the domestic sphere to participate in the spectacle of city life, inviting frequent commentary on their behavior. This began to change only in the 1820s, when economic and social developments intensified class distinctions and made the bourgeoisie fear the "dangerous classes." This book provides an important corrective to prevailing views on the ramifications of the French Revolution, while shedding light on how ordinary people understood, shaped, and contested the social transformations taking place around them.
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Harvard Historical Studies ; 155
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
I Political Festivals
1 Staging the Napoleonic State
2 Renewing Ties with the Bourbon Monarchy
II Theaters
3 Melodramatic Spectatorship on the Parisian Boulevard
4 Sex and Politics in Provincial Theaters
III Social Life
5 Building Solidarity Cercles, Salons, and Charities
6 Drinking, Dancing, and the Moral Order
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
List of Primary Sources
Index
Acknowledgments
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
I Political Festivals
1 Staging the Napoleonic State
2 Renewing Ties with the Bourbon Monarchy
II Theaters
3 Melodramatic Spectatorship on the Parisian Boulevard
4 Sex and Politics in Provincial Theaters
III Social Life
5 Building Solidarity Cercles, Salons, and Charities
6 Drinking, Dancing, and the Moral Order
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
List of Primary Sources
Index