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Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France
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In Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France, Sarah Horowitz brings together the political and cultural history of post-revolutionary France to illuminate how French society responded to and recovered from the upheaval of the French Revolution. The Revolution led to a heightened sense of distrust and divided the nation along ideological lines. In the wake of the Terror, many began to express concerns about the atomization of French society. Friendship, though, was regarded as one bond that could restore trust and cohesion. Friends relied on each other to serve as confidants; men and women described friendship as a site of both pleasure and connection. Because trust and cohesion were necessary to the functioning of post-revolutionary parliamentary life, politicians turned to friends and ideas about friendship to create this solidarity. Relying on detailed analyses of politicians' social networks, new tools arising from the digital humanities, and examinations of behind-the-scenes political transactions, Horowitz makes clear the connection between politics and emotions in the early nineteenth century, and she reevaluates the role of women in political life by showing the ways in which the personal was the political in the post-revolutionary era.
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Table of contents
- COVER Front
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Friendship in Post-Revolutionary France
- Notes to Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Sentimental Education of the Political
- Notes to Chapter 1
- Chapter 2: The Politics of Anomie
- Notes to Chapter 2
- Chapter 3: Friends with Benefits
- Notes to Chapter 3
- Chapter 4: Post-Revolutionary Social Networks
- Notes to Chapter 4
- Chapter 5: The Politics of Male Friendship
- Notes to Chapter 5
- Chapter 6: The Bonds of Concord: Women and Politics
- Notes to Chapter 6
- Epilogue
- Notes to Epilogue
- Appendix A: Béranger, Chateaubriand, Guizot, and Their Friends
- Appendix B: Detailed Social Networks in the 1820s and 1840s
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- COVER Back