Gender, Emotion, and the Origins of Democracy in July Monarchy France: The Liberal Crucible [Hardcover]

Introduction? 1. The Landscape of Liberty: The Emotional Politics of State Power in 1830s France? 2. The Gendered Prism of Liberty: State Repression and the Legitimist Critique of Liberal Masculinity? 3. Napol?on in a Skirt: The Duchesse de Berrys Rebellion and the Politics of Emotional Representation? 4. The Uses of Social Empathy: The Lyon Insurrection of November 1831 and the Liberal Origins of Class Politics? 5. A Vigorous Lesson: The Lyon Insurrection of 1834 and the Question of Community.? Conclusion

This book provides a new perspective on the historical importance of a series of provincial rebellions in France after the Revolution of 1830. It demonstrates their crucial role in the development of popular ideas about liberty and democracy in modern France.

Hobbs shows how the Duchesse de Berrys rebellion in 1832 and the Lyon insurrections of 1831 and 1834 inspired competing visions of liberty defined through discourses about gender and emotion. In particular, he illustrates how political groups, including liberals, legitimists, and republicans, used representations of gender and emotion to justify their roles in rebellions and to contest the meaning of liberty. Rather than being directly descended from liberal or republican traditions, the book argues, modern French democracy was forged as the mutual creation of these groups as they vied for political power in the nineteenth century.

This volume will be of interest to scholars of modern France, the history of democracy, the history of emotions, the history of class, and the history of liberalism, as well as to graduate students studying modern Europe, liberalism, the history of emotions, class politics, and nineteenth-century royalism.

This book provides a new perspective on the historical importance of a series of provincial rebellions in France after the Revolution of 1830 and demonstrates their crucial role in the developmlÃ