Valerie Mainz: Days of Glory? | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781349713028 | Days of Glory? | Valerie Mainz | Taschenbuch | xvii | Englisch | 2021

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Beschreibung

This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of ¿citizenship¿ and of service to ¿la Patrie¿. The opening lines of the Marseillaise are grandly declamatory: Allons enfants de la Patrie/le jour de gloire est arrivé! or, in English: Arise, children of the Homeland/The day of glory has arrived! What do these words mean in their later eighteenth-century French context? What was gloire and how was it changed by the revolutionary process? This military song, later adopted as the national anthem, represents a deceptively unifying moment of collective engagement in the making of the modern French nation. Valerie Mainz questions this through a close study of visual imagery dealing with the issue of military recruitment. From neoclassical painting to popular prints, suchimages typically dealt with the shift from civilian to soldier, focusing on how men, and not women, were called to serve the Homeland.

Über den Autor

Valerie Mainz is Senior Lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, UK, having previously worked in both the commercial and subsidised sectors of the theatre. She has curated exhibitions on the French Revolution at the University Gallery, University of Leeds in 1998, at the Musée de la Révolution française, Vizille in 1999 and, together with Richard Williams, at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds in 2006.

Zusammenfassung

Historicizes
the concept of gloire and shows how
images of military recruitment offer a lens into its contested, shifting nature

Places
military images from the French Revolution in dialogue with much older visual
conventions to show how ideas and values associated with military glory changed
over time

Draws on an impressive corpus of primary sources to develop her arguments: a chief merit of the book

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures.- Preface-. 1. Introduction.- 2. Signing up before the Revolution.- 3. Transforming gloire and military sign up.- 4. Recruitment and Revolution before Thermidor.- 5. Fighting Women.- 6. Fame's two trumpets.- 7. Conclusion.- Notes.- Works Cites.- Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xvii 298 S. 38 s/w Illustr. 8 farbige Illustr. 298 p. 46 illus. 8 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9781349713028
ISBN-10:	1349713023
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-1-349-71302-8
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mainz, Valerie
Auflage:	1st edition 2016
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	210 x 148 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Valerie Mainz
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.04.2021
Gewicht:	0,411 kg

Artikel-ID: 111793491