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Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France

  • ISBN-13: 9780271061924
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Sarah Horowitz
  • Price: AUD $180.00
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2014
  • Format: Hardback 240 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: European history [HBJD]
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Explores the place of friendship in helping French society and the political system recover from the upheaval of the Revolution. Examines the interdependence of public and private in post-revolutionary France, as well as the central role of women in political reconstruction.


Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Friendship in Post-Revolutionary France

1 The Sentimental Education of the Political

2 The Politics of Anomie

3 Friends with Benefits

4 Post-Revolutionary Social Networks

5 The Politics of Male Friendship

6 The Bonds of Concord: Women and Politics

Epilogue

Appendix A Béranger, Chateaubriand, Guizot, and Their Friends

Appendix B Detailed Social Networks in the 1820s and 1840s

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Horowitz’s topic is the doubling of intimate and political relations under the Restoration and July monarchies: as she persuasively demonstrates, the apparent crisis of civic trust in the wake of the Revolution, and the intensity of factional division during these regimes, produced a paradoxical situation whereby the only reliable political ally was a trusted friend, yet the only friend who could truly be trusted was a political ally. Horowitz is never naive about her subject. Through careful analysis of the language of friendship as it appeared in elite correspondence, Horowitz demonstrates how professions of friendship served to structure professional and political relationships, acting as markers of trust, indebtedness, and good will; but also how they risked degenerating into mere pro forma gestures, easily and endlessly imitated, by means of which the purity of the affective realm might be compromised by the grubby faithlessness of politics.”

—Andrew J. Counter, French Studies

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