Satiric Decade: Satire and the Rise of Republican Political Culture in France, 1830-1840

By Amy Wiese Forbes

The Satiric Decade analyzes the impact on republicanism of French political satire in newspapers, theaters, street behavior, and even the academy in the 1830s. Author Amy Wiese Forbes argues that satire gave rise to the critical spirit and republicanism that erupted in the 1848 Revolution and that propelled the process by which France evolved from an absolutist monarchy to a liberal and democratic polity in the 1870s.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739129457
• ISBN13: 9780739129456
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"