Days of Glory?

Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-54293-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 5106 g

Reihe: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850

This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of ‘citizenship’ and of service to ‘la Patrie’. The opening lines of the Marseillaise are grandly declamatory: Allons enfants de la Patrie/le jour de gloire est arrivé! or, in English: Arise, children of the Homeland/The day of glory has arrived! What do these words mean in their later eighteenth-century French context? What was gloire and how was it changed by the revolutionary process? This military song, later adopted as the national anthem, represents a deceptively unifying moment of collective engagement in the making of the modern French nation. Valerie Mainz questions this through a close study of visual imagery dealing with the issue of military recruitment.  From neoclassical painting to popular prints, suchimages typically dealt with the shift from civilian to soldier, focusing on how men, and not women, were called to serve the Homeland.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mainz, Valerie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Verwaltung, Streitkräfte (Militärwesen)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen Französische Revolution
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures.- Preface-. 1. Introduction.- 2. Signing up before the Revolution.- 3. Transforming gloire and military sign up.- 4. Recruitment and Revolution before Thermidor.- 5. Fighting Women.- 6. Fame's two trumpets.- 7. Conclusion.- Notes.- Works Cites.- Index. 

Über Autor(innen)

Valerie Mainz is Senior Lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, UK, having previously worked in both the commercial and subsidised sectors of the theatre. She has curated exhibitions on the French Revolution at the University Gallery, University of Leeds in 1998, at the Musée de la Révolution française, Vizille in 1999 and, together with Richard Williams, at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds in 2006.