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Turmoil: Instability and insecurity in the eighteenth-century Francophone text (Paperback)
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Turmoil: Instability and insecurity in the eighteenth-century Francophone text (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2022:05
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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 volume 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
Charriere 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.
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