The Letter in Flora Tristan's Politics, 1835-1844 - Hardcover

Cross, Máire Fedelma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333772644 ISBN 13: 9780333772645

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Synopsis

In this interdisciplinary work that ranges from the ancients through the Renaissance to the present, Jonathan Hart examines systems, law, theatre, nature, stereotype, otherness, authority, new historicism, deconstruction, feminism, reading, interpretation, poetry, and poetics. The book considers crucial topics and controversies involving the field of Comparative Literature, including subjectivity, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and globalization. Regardless of the period, this towering study assumes that meaning, genre, character, language, and structure are principal matters for debate.

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Product Description:

In this study, Maire Cross analyses Flora Tristan's correspondence with militant republicans, socialists and democrats active in the July Monarchy. It examines the role of the letter in fostering links at a time of a significant growth of literacy and search for citizenship by the disenfranchised. Combining a gendered analysis of socialist movements with a textual analysis of letters, it illustrates the vitality of political tensions in Tristan's communications and the sophistication of political networks on the eve of the 1848 revolution.

Review:

'The author aims to show how textual analysis of the correspondence illustrates the gendered nature of socialist movements, the vitality of political tensions in Tristan's communications and the sophistication of political networks on the eve of 1848'. - International Review of Social History

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0333772644
• ISBN 13: 9780333772645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 209