Lafayette in Two Worlds
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Lafayette in Two Worlds

Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions

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Lafayette in Two Worlds

Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions

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Lloyd Kramer offers a new interpretation of the cultural and political significance of the career of the Marquis de Lafayette, which spanned the American Revolution, the French Revolutions of 1789 and 1830, and the Polish Uprising of 1830–31. Moving beyond traditional biography, Kramer traces the wide-ranging influence of Lafayette's public and personal life, including his contributions to the emergence of nationalist ideologies in Europe and America, his extensive connections with liberal political theorists, and his close friendships with prominent writers, many of them women. Kramer places Lafayette on the cusp of the two worlds of America and France, politics and literature, the Enlightenment and the Romantic movement, public affairs and private life, revolution and nationalism, and men and women. He argues that Lafayette's experiences reveal how public figures can symbolize the aspirations of a society as a whole, and he stresses Lafayette's important role in a cultural network of contemporaries that included Germaine de Staël, Benjamin Constant, Frances Wright, James Fenimore Cooper, and Alexis de Tocqueville. History/Biography

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INDEX

  • Abrams, M. H., 91
  • Absolutism (ancien régime): and Lafayette, 47, 69, 76, 90, 124, 144, 263;
    • liberals' opposition to, 58;
    • Lafayette on, 83, 183
  • Adams, John, 59, 190
  • Adams, John Quincy: on Lafayette, 3, 4, 7, 8, 293 (n. 48);
    • as Lafayette's friend, 59, 64, 106, 188, 190, 196;
    • as president, 205, 219, 314 (n. 23)
  • African Americans. See Blacks
  • African Free School (New York), 206, 217
  • Alsace, 100
  • American Philosophical Society, 19, 186, 188
  • American-Polish Committee, 269–72
  • American Revolution: influence of, on modern world, 1, 201;
    • Lafayette as public symbol of, 2, 10, 34, 91, 107–8, 122, 129, 146, 223, 268;
    • Lafayette's friendships established during, 7, 264–65;
    • Lafayette's participation in, 10, 13, 17–22, 284 (n. 10);
    • Lafayette on, 23–24, 89, 194, 200–201;
    • differences between Old World revolutions and, 29, 35, 198, 202–3, 209–10;
    • and Lafayette's identity, 40, 49, 67, 105;
    • militias in, 80, 206;
    • Greek Revolution likened to, 105–8;
    • as virtuous revolution, 199, 200–201, 226;
    • Tocqueville on, 201–4;
    • African Americans in, 218;
    • Polish Revolution likened to, 269
  • Americans: Lafayette's hospitality to, 93, 95–96, 122–29. See also United States
  • Ancien régime. See Absolutism
  • Angers, Pierre-Jean David d', 96
  • Archenholtz, Herr von, 290 (n. 60)
  • Argenson, Marc-René Voyer d', 297 (n. 104)
  • Aristocracy: vs. democracy, 194–99, 203–12, 222–26, 232, 275. See also Aristocrats
  • Aristocrats: Lafayette as, 9, 17, 8, 24, 56, 123, 125, 144, 186, 195;
    • in French Revolution, 10, 41, 44, 186, 291 (n. 3);
    • d'Estaing as, 21–22;
    • Lafayette's alleged support for, 45, 47, 48;
    • Lafayette on, 47;
    • Destutt de Tracy as, 56;
    • de Staël as, 144;
    • Belgiojoso as, 174;
    • Tocqueville as, 186, 187, 195, 196–98, 209. See also Aristocracy
  • Arnold, Benedict, 27
  • Artists, 93...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Lafayette in Two Worlds
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. CONTENTS
  6. ILLUSTRATIONS
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. INTRODUCTION: LAFAYETTE AND THE HISTORY OF TWO WORLDS
  9. One AMERICA'S LAFAYETTE AND LAFAYETTE'S AMERICA: A EUROPEAN AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
  10. Two WAS LAFAYETTE A DUMBBELL OR A SHREDDED TEXT?: POLITICAL CONFLICT AND SYMBOLIC MEANINGS IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
  11. Three LAFAYETTE AND LIBERAL THEORISTS: INTELLECTUALS, POLITICS, AND THE LEGACY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
  12. Four LAFAYETTE AND ROMANTIC CULTURE, 1815–1834
  13. Five LAFAYETTE AND WOMEN WRITERS: GERMAINE DE STAËL, FANNY WRIGHT, AND CRISTINA BELGIOJOSO
  14. Six LAFAYETTE, TOCQUEVILLE, AND AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY
  15. Seven LAFAYETTE IN 1830: A CENTER THAT COULD NOT HOLD
  16. Eight THE RIGHTS OF MAN: LAFAYETTE AND THE POLISH NATIONAL REVOLUTION, 1830–1834
  17. EPILOGUE: LAFAYETTE AND POSTREVOLUTIONARY POLITICAL CULTURE
  18. NOTES
  19. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  20. INDEX