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4. Is there anything left to discover about the crowd in the French Revolution? Can we contribute to the issues raised by Rudé, Soboul, and Andrews over the last 30 years? Is the crowd a new topic for representation in late eighteenth-century France, and if so, why is that important?
 
question 4 Warren Roberts, 6-9-03, 9:54 AM
RE: question 4 Jack Censer, 6-12-03, 4:46 PM
    what can we learn about the crowd Lynn Hunt, 6-23-03, 11:04 PM
RE: what can we learn about the crowd Barbara Day-Hickman, 7-15-2003,
12:58 PM
RE: what can we learn about the crowd Jack Censer, 7-17-2003, 10:18 AM
Response to Jack Warren Roberts,
7-21-03, 8:03 AM
Responses to Barbara Warren Roberts,
7-19-03, 10:31 AM

RE: Response to Warren and Final Remarks Barbara Day-Hickman,
7-25-03, 1:14 PM

Response to Barbara Warren Roberts, 7-28-03, 10:33 AM

Subject: RE: what we can learn about the crowd
Posted By: Jack Censer
Date Posted: 7-17-03, 10:18 AM

As I ruminate about Lynn and Barbara’s entries here, it occurs to me to add to their general point. Both essentially argue that while images take us into the psychology of the crowd, the images that we have from the French introduce a rationality as well as a passion. As Lynn and I pointed out in our essay, some of the English images, though, manage to transcend the limits of the medium and show real passion. They do this, it seems to me, by close ups of the crowd, by focusing on the individual faces and leaving the body in a position in which its motion is assumed. Had the eighteenth-century English tradition simply taken them closer to the crowd? Or were the French deliberately reluctant?
 
 
 
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