Louis Sébastien Mercier - Michael J. Mulryan

Louis Sébastien Mercier

Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2023
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-488-1 (ISBN)
154,60 inkl. MwSt
French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sebastien Mercier passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre. In this penetrating study Michael Mulryan explores his unpublished writings and urban chronicles, returning him to his rightful place among Enlightenment thinkers.
French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today remains an understudied writer. In this penetrating study—the first in English devoted to Mercier in decades—Michael Mulryan explores his unpublished writings and urban chronicles, Tableau de Paris (1781–88) and Le Nouveau Paris (1798), in which he identified the city as a microcosm of national societal problems, detailed the conditions of the laboring poor, encouraged educational reform, and confronted universal social ills. Mercier’s rich writings speak powerfully to the sociopolitical problems that continue to afflict us as political leaders manipulate public debate and encourage absolutist thinking, deepening social divides. An outcast for his polemical views during his lifetime, Mercier has been called the founder of modern urban discourse, and his work a precursor to investigative journalism. This sensitive study returns him to his rightful place among Enlightenment thinkers.

MICHAEL J. MULRYAN is an associate professor of French at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. His research focuses on the representation of urban space and the marginalized in eighteenth-century literature. He is the coeditor of Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales: Between Fact and Fiction (Bucknell University Press) and coeditor and cotranslator of an educational treatise by Mercier.  

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1          The Desolation of Festive Space in Tableau de Paris

2          Authoritarian versus Enlightened Approaches to Urban Space in Tableau de Paris

3          Art and Society in Tableau de Paris

4          Mercier’s “New” Chaotic Paris: Surviving a Moral Vacuum among the Delusional, the Dethroned, and the Disenfranchised

5          The Regeneration of the French Citizen: The “Homme Nouveau” as the Cornerstone Mercier’s Modern Urbs

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 6 B-W illustrations, 2 color illustrations
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 513 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 1-68448-488-X / 168448488X
ISBN-13 978-1-68448-488-1 / 9781684484881
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