Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-343) and index.
Contents:
V. Revolutionary upheaval and domestic turmoil in Beaumarchais's unsung play La Mère coupable / John Leigh. Introduction: turmoil, instability, adaptation, elasticity in the eighteenth-century francophone text / Síofra Pierse -- I. Intimations of insecurity -- Troubles, désordres, crises: une approche numérique des expressions de la tourmente au dix-huitième siècle / Ioana Galleron et Chiara Mainardi -- The knife and the pen: the attentat of 1757 / Kate E. Tunstall -- Political turmoil in Voltaire's vision and revision of the Fronde / James Hanrahan -- II. Filtering natural disasters -- The Antilles, the natural history of hurricanes and earthquakes, the Seven Years War and global commerce through the lens of the abbé Raynal's Histoire philosophique et politique des deux Indes / Jenny Mander -- (Ré)inventer le Vésuve, modéliser la catastrophe, vivre la tourmente: Dupaty en Italie méridionale à la veille de la Révolution / Laurence Macé -- Voltaire and the Lisbon disaster: from aftershocks to ataraxy / Síofra Pierse -- III. Instability and memory -- Poétique de l'émotion populaire dans les Tableaux historiques de la Révolution française de Nicolas Chamfort / Cyril Francès -- Turmoil and corruption in Joséphine de Monbart's Lettres tahitiennes / Adam Schoene -- Disorder and the dead in revolutionary Paris / Erin-Marie Legacey -- IV. Sade and female marginalisation -- Fictional turmoil: the bloodlust of women in Sadean libertine narratives / Edward T. O'Sullivan -- L'insécurité du sexe féminin: de l'infanticide au féminicide chez Sade / Shasha Ma -- V. Resilience post turmoil -- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: le solitaire engagé / Simon Davies -- La résistance spirituelle dans la France des philosophes / Gabriel-Robert Thibault -- 'A moi! A un proscrit! A un malheureux fugitif!': Isabelle de Charrière's émigré-e-s amid the turmoil of exile / Emma M. Dunne -- Revolutionary upheaval and domestic turmoil in Beaumarchais's unsung play La Mère coupable / John Leigh.
Summary:
What is turmoil? How may it be captured? What were its manifestations in the eighteenth century? Why does it feel so familiar, even urgent, nowadays? This book proposes a completely new ontology of turmoil through study of its incidence and impact in the eighteenth-century francophone context. The interdisciplinary essays in this bilingual volume provide multiple illustrations of eighteenth-century instability and insecurity, as well as subsequent adjustments to a post-turmoil new normal. Each instance illuminates human resilience and the mechanisms of post-turmoil elasticity and adaptation in Enlightenment, revolutionary and post-revolutionary writing by female authors Charrière and Monbart, in publications by male authors Beaumarchais, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Chamfort, Dupaty, Raynal, Sade and Voltaire, and also in writing by relatively unknown authors, journalists and critics, who capture the turmoil of the global francophone eighteenth-century world. The topics explored emerge as universal ones, familiar to a modern readership: textual and visual revisionism, symbolism within natural disasters, realignment of beliefs, instability of memory, repositioning of historical narratives, female insecurity, attacks on public figures, post-revolutionary resilience and the impact of exile. Through its unique identification of three key generative indicators for turmoil - phenomenon, paradigm shift, elasticity of adaptation - this volume's contributors deliver a distinctive, rich and new ontology of turmoil.
Series:
Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 2634-8047 ; 2022:05
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