Author is one of the most exciting cultural historians in the US
Original subject: could be controversial and publicity making. Includes a major analysis of the place of pornographic writing in revolutionary politics
Addresses with clarity and without pretention the question of how to apply psychoanalysis to the writing of history
`All in all, the book offers exciting and novel perspectives on the Revolution, and on politics more generally, ... a vindication of the power and importance of cultural history, ...' - Patrick Joyce Times Higher Education Supplement
`... the book offers exciting and novel perspectives on the Revolution, ... Hunt's book is a vindication of the power and importance of cultural history , and a significant signpost to a new sort of political history.' - Times Higher Education
`This is European cultural history at its best.' - France in Print