Les Romans de la Terreur

L'invention d'un imaginaire (1793-1874)

adapted by Paul Kompanietz

Book cover: Les Romans de la Terreur

Extent: 560 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Eighteenth-Century Studies, Literary Studies, Nineteenth-Century Studies

Series: Etudes romantiques et dix-neuviemistes

Series volume number: 112, 3

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(August 2021)

ISBN: 9782406117698

Price: $75.00

Out of stock

Hardback (Published)

(August 2021)

ISBN: 9782406117704

Price: $124.00

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From Lettres trouvees dans des portefeuilles d’emigres (1793) by Isabelle de Charriere to Victor Hugo’s Quatrevingt-Treize (1874), the years 1793-1794 have stoked the imagination of numerous novelists. Beyond the scenes featuring the guillotine, how did the novel help invent an imaginary of the “Terreur”?

  • Adapted by Paul Kompanietz