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Neo-Classicism
http://arthistory.about.com/
cs/neoclassicisma/
A gateway site to biographies of the key artists during the Napoleonic
era, including David who is famous for his depictions of the French Revolution
and of Napoleon.
Expressions of Revolution and Counter-revolution
www2.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Archive
/Disserts/mcclell.html
An essay on how politicians used the theatre and music to provide rousing
revolutionary rhetoric.
French Writers
http://classiclit.about.com/cs/
frenchwriters/index.htm
Many links to biographies and essays of French writers.
Books
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin (Penguin,
new ed 1992) £9.99
One of the most controversial figures of her day, Wollstonecraft travelled
to revolutionary France and lived through the Terror and destruction of
the incipient French feminist movement, produced an illegitimate daughter
and married William Godwin before dying in childbirth at the age of 38.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (Everyman's
Library, 1992) £8.99
First published in 1792, this book was written in a spirit of outrage
and enthusiasm. In an age of ferment, following the American and French
revolutions, Wollstonecraft took prevailing egalitarian principles and
dared to apply them to women. Her book is both a sustained argument for
emancipation and an attack on a social and economic system.
Rebellious Hearts: British women writers and the French Revolution
by Adriana Craciun and Kari Lokke (New York Press, 2001) £14.99
Examines the full spectrum of women's participation in the social, economic,
religious, and poetic debates surrounding the French Revolution and the
Napoleonic era.
Singing the French Revolution: Popular culture and politics 1787-1799
by Laura Mason (Cornell University Press, 1996) £19.99
A history of French singing culture from 1787 to 1799 that brings to life
the many voices of Parisians who used song to express their desires and
create political anthems.
Napoleon and English Romanticism by Simon Bainbridge (Cambridge
University Press, 1995) £50
Through the study of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron, among others, this
book highlights the importance of Napoleon to the Romantics.
Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Louis Prieur, Revolutionary Artists:
The public, the populace, and images of the French Revolution by Warren
Roberts (State University of New York, 1999) £17.95
Provides great insights into the relationship between art and the Revolution,
using the comparative examples of David and the little-known illustrator
Prieur.
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