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Authors: Sophia A. Rosenfeld
ISBN-13: 9780804733144, ISBN-10: 0804733147
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: July 2001
Edition: 1
Sophia Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia.
What is the relationship between the ideas of the Enlightenment and the culture and ideology of the French Revolution? Rosenfeld takes up that classic question by concentrating on changing conceptions of language and signs during the second half of the eighteenth century.
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | The Gestural Origins of Semiosis and Society: An Enlightenment Solution, 1745-60 | 13 |
2 | Pantomime as Theater, 1760-89 | 57 |
3 | Pantomime as Pedagogy, 1760-89 | 86 |
4 | Revolutionary Regeneration and the Politics of Signs, 1789-94 | 123 |
5 | Ending the Logomachy, 1795-99 | 181 |
Conclusion: The Savage, the Citizen, and the Language of the Law after 1800 | 227 | |
Notes | 249 | |
Bibliography | 345 | |
Index | 399 |