Overview
- Examines how rumour shaped perceptions of the French Revolution
- Analyses the role of rumour in community life, through a range of police reports and archival source
- Explores how these narratives enabled communities to interpret current events through familiar language and imagery
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850 (WCS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
Lindsay Porter explores the role of rumour as a phenomenon in itself, investigating the way in which the informal authority of the ‘word on the street’ was subject to a range of historical and contemporary prejudices. Drawing its conclusions from police reports and other archival sources, this study examines the potential of rumour both to unite and to divide communities, as rumour and hearsay began to play an important role in defining and judging personal commitment to the Revolution and what it meant to be a citizen.
Reviews
“ Its changing content, identify the groups through which it passed, and study the ways that they made sense of it as it ebbed and flowed, crossing paths with other means of communication such as images, graffiti, songs, letters, and all varieties of the printed word.” (Robert Darnton, H-France Forum, Vol. 14 (2), 2019)
“The study of rumor during the French Revolution is a wonderful subject, … . Lindsay Porter is well aware of this work, and one of the virtues of her book is to recognize the ways that revolutionary rumor renewed and built on older themes.” (David Garrioch, H-France Forum, Vol. 14 (2), 2019)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Popular Rumour in Revolutionary Paris, 1792-1794
Authors: Lindsay Porter
Series Title: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56967-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56966-6Published: 18 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86047-3Published: 12 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56967-3Published: 19 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6699
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6702
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 267
Topics: History of France, History of Military, History of Early Modern Europe, Cultural History, Social History