Lafayette in Two Worlds Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions

Name: Lafayette in Two Worlds Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions
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ISBN: 9780807848180

ISBN-10: 0807848182

ISBN-13: 9780807848180

Edition: 2nd 1999

Authors: Lloyd S. Kramer

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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…

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List price: $42.50
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 1.298

Lloyd Kramer is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books include Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830-1848 and Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions.



Acknowledgments


Lafayette and the History of Two Worlds



America's Lafayette and Lafayette's America: A European and the American Revolution



Was Lafayette a Dumbbell or a Shredded Text?: Political Conflict and Symbolic Meanings in the French Revolution



Lafayette and Liberal Theorists: Intellectuals, Politics, and the Legacy of the French Revolution



Lafayette and Romantic Culture, 1815-1834



Lafayette and Women Writers: Germaine de Stael, Fanny Wright, and Cristina Belgiojoso



Lafayette, Tocqueville, and American National Identity



Lafayette in 1830: A Center That Could Not Hold



The Rights of Man: Lafayette and the Polish National Revolution, 1830-1834


Epilogue. Lafayette and Postrevolutionary Political Culture


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