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Category: Literary Theory

British Empire French Revolution Literary Theory

“The Tomb of the Murdered Monarchy”: Burke’s Tragicomic Reflections on the French Revolution, Part 1

Posted on November 10, 2025 by Age of Revolutions
Reading time 20 minutes
French Revolution History of Emotion Literary Theory

Desire, Dread, and the Grateful Dead: The Bastille, its Cadavers, and the Revolutionary Gothic Imaginary

Posted on April 10, 2023 by Age of Revolutions
Reading time 17 minutes
"Rethinking the Revolutionary Canon" Enlightenment French Revolution Literary Theory Morality Philosophy

Germaine de Staël on Literature and Passions in Thermidorian France

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Age of Revolutions
Reading time 16 minutes
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Cuba Libre: On the Revolutionary Epic as “Redemptive Impatience”

Posted on September 19, 2022 by Age of Revolutions
Reading time 18 minutes
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Beneath the Hardened Lava: Images of Nature and Revolutionary Violence in Germaine de Staël’s “Épître au malheur”

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Age of Revolutions
Reading time 54 minutes
"Revolutionary Material Culture" Gender Haitian History Literary Theory Material Culture

Madras and the Poetics of Sartorial Resistance in Caribbean Literature

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Age of Revolutions
Reading time 14 minutes
"Revolutionary Material Culture" Environmental History Labor History Literary Theory Slavery United States History

Coral, Labor, Slavery, and Silence in the Archives

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Age of Revolutions
Reading time 12 minutes
Cultural History Historiography Literary Theory Plot

Plotting Revolution, Part III: Histories of the Present

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Age of Revolutions
Reading time 7 minutes
Cultural History Historiography Literary Theory Napoleonic France Plot

Plotting Revolution, Part II: Politics of the Past

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Age of Revolutions
Reading time 7 minutes
Cultural History Historiography Literary Theory Plot

Plotting Revolution, Part I: History’s Plots

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Age of Revolutions
Reading time 7 minutes

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