Yale French Studies 101: Fragments of Revolution

Howard G. Lay and Caroline Weber Editors’ 1.) Material Strategies Caroline Weber Freedom’s Missed Moment Erika Naginski The Object of Contempt Jeannene Przybkyski Revolution at a Philosophy and the Paris Commune of 1871 Howard G. Lay Beau geste 2.) Narrative Tactics Darrin M. McMahon Narratives of Dystopia in the French Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and the Isle de Philosophes of the Abbé Balthazard Peter Brooks Epistemophilia and the Collapse of the Restoration Debarati Sanyal The Tie that Violent Commerce in Baudelaire’s “La corde” 3.) Alternative Negotiations Richard Terdiman Political Revolutionary Deconstruction in Diderot Jennifer Jones Personals and Courting la citoyenne in Le courrier de l’hymen Jean-Marie Roulin Mothers in Revolution Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby Revolutionary Sons, White Fathers, and Creole Guillaume-Lethieres “Oath of the Ancestors” (1822)