Manifestoes: Provocations of the Modern
ISBN: 9781501728358
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter



For more than three hundred years, manifestoes have defined the aims of radical groups, individuals, and parties while galvanizing revolutionary movements. As Janet Lyon shows, the manifesto is both a signal genre of political modernity and one of the...


Janet Lyon is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies and Co-director of the Disability Studies Program at Pennsylvania State University.

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