Retoryka rewolucyjna w zderzeniu z mniejszościami seksualnymi. Analiza czterech pamfletów z okresu Wielkiej Rewolucji Francuskiej
When the revolutionary rhetoric meets sexual minorities An analysis of four pamphlets of the French Revolution

Author(s): Przemysław Szczur
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: French Revolution;pamphlet;sexuality;sexual minority
Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the way the rhetoric of liberation and human rights, characteristic of the French Revolution, deals with the subject of sexual minorities. The Revolution can be seen as a transition period in which the revolutionary rhetoric collides some ancient images of sexual minorities. The limits of this new rhetoric are tested in pamphlets where these minorities appear and that are also full of ancient images: Les Enfans de Sodome à l’Assemblée Nationale, Requête et décret en faveur des putains, des fouteuses, des macquerelles et des branleuses contre les bougres, les bardaches et les brûleurs de paillasses, Les Petits Bougres au Manège and La Liberté ou Mlle Raucourt.

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