Overview
- Examines the French emigration fuelled by the 1789 French Revolution and its impacts in social, cultural and political spheres
- Brings up to date and challenges current historiography, offering an interdisciplinary perspective to further understanding of the experience of the French émigré community
- Considers the dynamics involved in migration and the process of defining displaced identities
Part of the book series: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850 (WCS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Regional and National Challenges of the Emigration
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Reading the Emigration, Learning in Emigration and the Émigré Theatre
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Global Entanglements of Exile
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The Return
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About this book
The French emigration was an exilic movement triggered by the 1789 French Revolution with long-lasting social, cultural, and political impacts that continued well into the nineteenth century. At times paradoxical, the political and legal implications of being an émigré are detangled in this edited collection, thus bringing to light unexpected processes of tensions and compromises between the exiles and their host societies. The refugee/host contact points also fostered a series of cultural transfers. This book argues that the French emigration ought to be seen within the broader context of an ‘Age of Exile’, a notion that better encompasses the dynamics of migration that forced many to re-imagine their relation to a nation and define their displaced identities. Revisiting the historiography of the last twenty years from an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume challenges pre-existing beliefs on the journeys and re-settlements – in Europe and beyond – of the French émigré community.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Laure Philip is an independent scholar and literary historian of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She previously worked as a research associate at Western Sydney University, Australia.
Juliette Reboul is a post-doctoral researcher at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She is the author of French Emigration to Great Britain in Response to the French Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: French Emigrants in Revolutionised Europe
Book Subtitle: Connected Histories and Memories
Editors: Laure Philip, Juliette Reboul
Series Title: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27435-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27434-4Published: 28 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27437-5Published: 28 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27435-1Published: 19 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6699
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6702
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 337
Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of France, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Military, History of Modern Europe