Louis Sébastien Mercier: Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Mulryan, Michael J.

Louis Sébastien Mercier: Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Paris

French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in...
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Author: Michael J. Mulryan
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Louis Sébastien Mercier: Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Mulryan, Michael J.

Louis Sébastien Mercier: Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Paris

$537.95

Louis Sébastien Mercier: Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Paris

$537.95
Author: Michael J. Mulryan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today remains an understudied writer. In this penetrating study--the first in English devoted to Mercier in decades--Michael Mulryan explores his unpublished writings and urban chronicles, Tableau de Paris (1781-88) and Le Nouveau Paris (1798), in which he identified the city as a microcosm of national societal problems, detailed the conditions of the laboring poor, encouraged educational reform, and confronted universal social ills. Mercier's rich writings speak powerfully to the sociopolitical problems that continue to afflict us as political leaders manipulate public debate and encourage absolutist thinking, deepening social divides. An outcast for his polemical views during his lifetime, Mercier has been called the founder of modern urban discourse, and his work a precursor to investigative journalism. This sensitive study returns him to his rightful place among Enlightenment thinkers.

Author: Michael J. Mulryan
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 09/15/2023
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781684484881

About the Author
Michael J. Mulryan is an associate professor of French at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. His research focuses on the representation of urban space and the marginalized in eighteenth-century literature. He is coeditor of Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales: Between Fact and Fiction (Bucknell University Press) and coeditor and cotranslator of an educational treatise by Mercier.



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