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This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a multidisciplinary investigation of the foundations of modern politics. "Family Romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and joining one of higher social standing. Lynn Hunt uses the term broadly to describe the images of the familial order underlying revolutionary politics. In a wide-ranging account using novels, engravings, paintings, speeches, newspaper editorials, pornographic writing, and revolutionary legislation about the family, Hunt shows that politics were experienced through the grid of the family romance.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 213
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
11 June 1992
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520082700
Format: Paperback
"Entertaining, original and provocative. . . . [Hunt] is interested in what historians have always thought were the central political issues of the period (power, authority, legitimacy), but she approaches them by ingenious indirection. She is also a scrupulous scholar."
Lynn Hunt is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of several books, including Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (California, 1984), and the editor of The New Cultural History (California, 1989).
List of Illustrations
Preface
l. The Family Model of Politics
2. The Rise and Fall of the Good Father
3· The Band of Brothers
4· The Bad Mother
5· Sade's Family Politics
6. Rehabilitating the Family
Epilogue: Patriarchy in the Past Tense?
Index
Preface
l. The Family Model of Politics
2. The Rise and Fall of the Good Father
3· The Band of Brothers
4· The Bad Mother
5· Sade's Family Politics
6. Rehabilitating the Family
Epilogue: Patriarchy in the Past Tense?
Index