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The Bastille :

(Number (ISBN

0822318946

(Number (ISBN

0822319020

(Number (ISBN

9780822318941

(Number (ISBN

9780822319023

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Title Proper

The Bastille :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a history of a symbol of despotism and freedom /

First Statement of Responsibility

Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink and Rolf Reichardt ; translated by Norbert Schürer.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Durham :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Duke University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1997.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xv, 304 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

23 cm.

Series Title

Bicentennial reflections on the French Revolution

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

1. Genesis of a Political Symbol: The Bastille, 1715-1789. Anti-Bastille Journalism: Scandalous Stories of Prisoners. The Reality-Forming Power of the Symbolic: Prison Practice versus Social Consciousness -- 2. The Storming of the Bastille: The Historical Event as Collective Symbolic Action. The Storming of the Bastille: Causes and Process. How a Decisive Event in World History Is "Made": The Symbolic Exaggeration of 14 July 1789 -- 3. Revolutionary Symbolism under the Sign of the Bastille, 1789-1799: A Prime Example of the Self-Mystification of the French Revolution. Radicalization and Diversification of a Collective Symbol. The New Heroes: The Role-Model Function and Self-Staging of the Victors of the Bastille.

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Text of Note

This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and how it came to represent the cornerstone of the French Revolution, becoming a symbol of the repression of the Old Regime. Lüsebrink and Reichardt use this semiotic reading of the Bastille to reveal how historical symbols are generated; what these symbolsʹ functions are in the collective memory of societies; and how they are used by social, political, and ideological groups. To facilitate the symbolic nature of the investigation, this analysis of the evolving signification of the Bastille moves from the French Revolution to the nineteenth century to contemporary history. The narrative also shifts from France to other cultural arenas, like the modern European colonial sphere, where the overthrow of the Bastille acquired radical new signification in the decolonization period of the 1940s and 1950s. The Bastille demonstrates the potency of the interdisciplinary historical research that has characterized the end of this century, combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, and taking its methodological tools from history, sociology, linguistics, and cultural and literary studies. -- Publisher description.

Title

Bastille.

General Material Designation

Bastille.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Bastille.

Liberty-- History.

Symbolism in politics-- France.

France, History, Revolution, 1789-1799, Influence.

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Class number

Book number

Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen.

Reichardt, Rolf.

Schürer, Norbert

Date of Transaction

20161019011431.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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