THE EMPEROR’S TEARS: GRIEF AND MOURNING IN THE PROPAGANDA OF NAPOLEONIC FRANCE

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dc.contributor.advisorKosicki, Piotr Hen_US
dc.contributor.authorTreadwell, Charlotte Susanen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-14T05:32:34Z
dc.date.available2021-07-14T05:32:34Z
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores Napoleon’s use of grief and mourning in propaganda. Drawing on military bulletins, published accounts of funerals, and poetry and prose, this thesis examines portrayals of the deaths of Jean Lannes and Géraud-Christophe Michel Duroc in official propaganda, and the responses these portrayals provoked in popular culture and private correspondence. This thesis outlines ways in which Napoleon and his government portrayed and evoked grief and mourning in order to influence public opinion, including depicting Napoleon’s grief in order to construct a sympathetic portrait of him, evoking grief within the army as a source of motivation, and using public commemoration of the dead to glorify the empire and provide a model of heroism and devotion for France’s soldiers and citizens to emulate.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/odl0-iwpj
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/27435
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCommunication and the artsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGriefen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMourningen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNapoleonen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPropagandaen_US
dc.titleTHE EMPEROR’S TEARS: GRIEF AND MOURNING IN THE PROPAGANDA OF NAPOLEONIC FRANCEen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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