Howard G. Brown, "Mass Violence and the Self: From the French Wars of Religion to the Paris Commune"
English | ISBN: 1501730614 | 2019 | 296 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Mass Violence and the Self explores the earliest visual and textual depictions of personal suffering caused by the French Wars of Religion of 1562-98, the Fronde of 1648-52, the French Revolutionary Terror of 1793-94, and the Paris Commune of 1871. The development of novel media from pamphlets and woodblock printing to colored lithographs, illustrated newspapers, and collodion photography helped to determine cultural, emotional, and psychological responses to these four episodes of mass violence.