Lexington Books
Pages: 238
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Trim: 6½ x 9¾
978-0-7391-2945-6 • Hardback • December 2009 • $128.00 • (£98.00)
978-0-7391-4327-8 • eBook • December 2009 • $121.50 • (£94.00)
Amy Wiese Forbes is associate professor of history and director of European studies at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.
1 Table of Contents
2 List of Figures
3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Introduction
Chapter 5 1. Conspiracy
Chapter 6 2. Legality
Chapter 7 3. Fraud
Chapter 8 4. Imposture
Chapter 9 5. Charivari
Chapter 10 6. Absurdity
Chapter 11 Conclusion
12 Bibliography
13 Index
14 About the Author
This original look at caricature in pre-1848 France shows satire and exaggeration laying the groundwork for a more democratic politics. Amy Forbes's command of detail and her lively style make this important work a pleasure to read.
— Bonnie Smith, Rutgers University
Amy Forbes’s lively and penetrating book brings the French tradition of political mockery into the modern era to illuminate how satire schooled a post-revolutionary citizenry in republicanism and democracy. Interweaving debate about the political settlements of 1830 with mounting tensions over class and gender, she joins a select group of scholars who are using cultural history to reshape our understanding of early nineteenth-century France.
— Laura Mason, University of Georgia
From this often highly entertaining exposé of satire, its authors, and its opponents, Forbes concludes that 'republicanism took shape as an aesthetic of satiric criticism-a critical habit of mind'….Forbes surely has provided new insights into the workings of satire, and her book shows how satire, in combination with a lot of other factors, contributed to and redefined republicanism.
— June 2011; The Journal Of Modern History