"Death is the Beginning of Infamy: Robespierre and..." Topic
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Tango01 | 14 Jan 2017 2:55 p.m. PST |
…a Legacy of Misconceptions. "Maximilien Robespierre is one of history's most misrepresented figures. Though considerable efforts have been made to improve his legacy since his execution in 1794, the stereotypical portrait of Robespierre as an unfeeling dictator has maintained popularity for over two hundred years. Historians hostile to Robespierre have routinely relied upon dubious sources and political bias in order to justify their depictions of Robespierre as everything from a bloodthirsty murderer to an unfeeling ideologue. Of additional detriment to Robespierre's legacy is the gendered light in which he is often cast. Largely ignored by even his greatest supporters, the portrayal of Robespierre as abnormally effeminate has allowed historians to reimagine his revolutionary worth in ahistoric ways. In order to fully understand the effect these harmful depictions have had on Robespierre's legacy, it is necessary to reexamine the most prominent representations of Robespierre produced over the last three hundred years. Loaded with gendered stereotypes, faulty methodology, and ideological motivations these representations become increasingly problematic the further and further they are dissected for the truth. Robespierre's personal and political vilification began with the Thermidorian Reaction of 1794.1 On 8 Thermidor, an exhausted and politically out-of-tune Robespierre arrived at the National Convention to deliver his first speech after a month of absence.2 At the conclusion of the long and rambling tirade in which he defended himself against accusations of dictatorship, Robespierre declared he possessed a list of counterrevolutionaries he sought to condemn in the…" Free to read link Amicalement Armand |
robert piepenbrink | 14 Jan 2017 5:02 p.m. PST |
You know, other than grammatical guides, I think I'd prefer to skip all reading discussing "gender" let alone "heteronormativity." And I DON'T think the absence of French monuments to Robespierre is the fault of an 19th Century British historian and an Engish-language video game. The author might possibly look at Robespierre's body count or his political and economic program instead? The author seemed upset that he should be compared with later politicians who massacred civilian fellow citizens, but she never gets around to explaining why the comparison is unfair. When the only defenders cited are Robespierre's sister, his landlady's daughter and a bunch of Communists who approved of the Terror, the diversion into a discussion of his sex preferences, while understandable, is quite inadequate. |
Sobieski | 15 Jan 2017 4:26 p.m. PST |
Second the above poster's sentiments. Throwing in some by now far-from-cutting edge gender jargon with no new facts does not turn one's lame Ph. D. thesis into history. |
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