The Press in the French Revolution
Volume: 287
Series: SVEC
Volume Editors: Harvey Chisick with lana Zinguer and Ouzi Elyada
Series Collaborators: Denis Richet; Jean Sgard; Jacques Wagner; Raymond Birn; Pierre Rétat; Jeremy D. Popkin; Joan Lenardon; Harvey Chisick; Jeremy Black; Elizabeth L. Eisenstein; W. J. Murray; Jack R. Censer; Frances Malino; Myriam Yardeni; Jean-Paul Bertaud; Suzanne Tucoo-Chala; Melvin Edelstein; Antoine de Baecque; Ouzi Elyada; Emile Ducoudray; Dante Lenardon; Roselyne Koren; Harvey Mitchell; Sarah Maza; Michel Vovelle; Claude Gandelman
Publication Date: 1991
Pages: 440
ISBN: 978-0-7294-0415-0
Price: £60
About
In this volume an international team of contributors address several key themes surrounding the role of the press in the French Revolution, including the beginnings of the Revolution and its impact on the press; how Old Regime journals reacted to the
Revolution; the roles of journalists – both popular and elitist – in the politics of the Revolution; language and revolution; and images and their uses. Whilst not neglecting the production and economics of periodicals of the time, several contributors make use of the notion of discourse, and highlight various aspects of language and ideas in a revolutionary context.
The Press in the French Revolution contains expanded versions of papers presented at the University of Haifa in the spring of 1987. Contributors include some of the leading historians of the press
and revolutionary France: Antoine de Baecque, Raymond Birn, Jean-Paul Bertaud, Jack Censer, Elizabeth Eisenstein, Sarah Maza,
Harvey Mitchell, Jeremy Popkin, Pierre Rétat, Denis Richet, Jean Sgard, Suzanne Tucoo-Chala, Michel Vovelle and Jacques Wagner.
Introduction
The beginning of the Revolution and its impact on the press
Denis Richet, Les canaux de la propagation des idées contestataires avant la presse révolutionnaire
Jean Sgard, ‘On dit’
Jacques Wagner, Peuple et pouvoir dans le Journal encyclopédique à la veille de la Révolution française
Raymond Birn, The pamphlet press and the Estates-General of 1789
Pierre Rétat, Pamphlet numéroté et journal en 1789
Old regime journals confront the Revolution
Jeremy D. Popkin, The élite press in the French Revolution: the Gazette de Leyde and the Gazette universelle
Joan Lenardon, The paradox of revolution within an étatiste mentality
Harvey Chisick, The disappearance of a great Enlightenment periodical: the Année littéraire, 1789-1790
Jeremy Black, The challenge of the Revolution and the British press
Journalists and politics
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The tribune of the people: a new species of demagogue
W. J. Murray, Journalism as a career choice in 1789
Jack R. Censer, Robespierre the journalist
Frances Malino, Zalkind Hourwitz, the Jews and the revolutionary press
Journalism and politics: the elitist press
Myriam Yardeni, Paradoxes politiques et persuasion dans les Annales de Linguet
Jean-Paul Bertaud, L’Ami du roi de l’abbé Royou
Suzanne Tucoo-Chala, Un Moniteur universel idéal: le Supplément historique de l’An IV
Melvin Edelstein, La Feuille villageoise and rural political modernisation
Antoine de Baecque, La dénonciation publique dans la presse et le pamphlet (1789-1791)
Ouzi Elyada, Les récits de complot dans la presse populaire parisienne (1790-1791)
Emile Ducoudray, De la presse d’opinion aux groupes de pression: les clubs électoraux parisiens en 1791-1792
Language and revolution
Dante Lenardon; The genesis of revolutionary language and vocabulary in the Journal encyclopédique
Roselyne Koren, Violence verbale et argumentation dans la presse révolutionnaire et contre-révolutionnaire
Harvey Mitchell, Edmund Burke’s language of politics and his audience
Images and their uses
Sarah Maza, L’image de la souveraine: féminité et politique dans les pamphlets de l’affaire du Collier
Michel Vovelle, L’altération de l’image royale à travers l’estampe et la chanson (1788-1794)
Claude Gandelman, Appropriation et fécalisation: le rôle de la scatologie dans l’imagerie et le langage sans-culotte
Index
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