This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a multidisciplinary investigation of the foundations of modern politics. "Family Romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and joining one of higher social standing. Lynn Hunt uses the term broadly to describe the images of the familial order underlying revolutionary politics. In a wide-ranging account using novels, engravings, paintings, speeches, newspaper editorials, pornographic writing, and revolutionary legislation about the family, Hunt shows that politics were experienced through the grid of the family romance.
- ISBN10 0520082702
- ISBN13 9780520082700
- Publish Date 17 March 1993 (first published 3 September 1992)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 6 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 213
- Language English