Reimagining Society in 18th Century French Literature: Happiness and Human Rights by Jonas Ross Kjærgård

Reimagining Society in 18th Century French Literature: Happiness and Human Rights

Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Jonas Ross Kjærgård

238 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary reflective medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

The French revolutionary shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty came clothed in a new political language, a significant part of which was a strange coupling of happiness and rights. In Old Regime ideology, Frenchmen were considered subjects...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...