Madame Roland | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 57 pages of analysis & critique of Madame Roland.

Madame Roland | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 57 pages of analysis & critique of Madame Roland.
This section contains 15,518 words
(approx. 52 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Essay by Dorinda Outram

SOURCE: Outram, Dorinda. “Words and Flesh: Mme Roland, the Female Body and the Search for Power.” In The Body and the French Revolution: Sex, Class and Political Culture, pp. 124-52. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989.

In this essay, Outram connects Roland's presentation of herself as an “embodied” woman with her political writings and activism.

Fût-on un Caton, on doit craindre les Circés.

Hébert, 1793

En lisant les Mémoires de Mme Roland, on aperçoit l'actrice qui travaille pour la scène et qui noie dans une foule de puérilités l'apologie de ses amis et la satire de ses enemies; toutes les figures y sont peintes en buste, et le plus souvent par le pinceau des passions. J'ai connu personnellement cette femme dont la mort héroique a expié l'égarement, dont l'âme ardente et la tête ambitieuse eussent mérit...

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This section contains 15,518 words
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Buy the Critical Essay by Dorinda Outram
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