Affective Disorders, Emotion in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Emotion in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

Author

Scott; Bede

Year

2019

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Language

English

ISBN

978-1-78694-170-1

Link

Last Update

21-May-2026

Keywords

Language & Literature ; History

Description

I would like to begin, if I may, in a rather unpredictable place: provincial France in the summer of 1789. At this time, the country was undergoing a political and economic crisis that has been well-documented. The harvest had failed, food prices were rising, and unemployment was rife. In Paris, the Revolution was gathering momentum, and as news of the fall of the Bastille filtered through to the provinces, a number of rumours began to circulate. It was said that the aristocracy were planning to subdue the uprising by force, and that they had recruited foreign soldiers and ‘brigands’ in...