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- Title
Legends of a Revolutionary: Nostalgia in the Imagined Lives of Auguste Blanqui.
- Authors
Hutton, Patrick H.
- Abstract
Louis-Auguste Blanqui ranks among the most famous apostles of the nineteenth-century French Revolutionary tradition. His commitment to that cause was bound up with his longing to tap once more the energy that had inspired the popular uprisings of the French Revolution. Such nostalgia came to define not only his tactics but also his way of life. In the process he fashioned a legend of his role as insurrectionary activist, and its nostalgic underpinnings would intrigue his twentieth-century biographers. Here I examine the way four among them draw out varied and conflicting meanings from a life powerfully invested in a conception of the future deeply embedded in the past.
- Subjects
FRANCE; BLANQUI, Auguste, 1805-1881; REVOLUTIONARIES; BENJAMIN, Walter, 1892-1940; BOYM, Svetlana, 1959-2015; DECAUX, Alain; DOMMANGET, Maurice; LARGEAUD, Jean-Marc; PAZ, Maurice; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form)
- Publication
Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, 2013, Vol 39, Issue 3, p41
- ISSN
0315-7997
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/hrrh.2013.390304