Letter in Flora Tristan's Politics 1840-1844 Book

	Acknowledgements
	Preface
1	Reading Flora Tristan	1
	Political controversy	1
	Fascination for Tristan the feminist, traveller and narrator	6
	New biographical dimensions through correspondence	9
	Epistolary survival of political context	22
	Tristan sources lost and found	23
2	The making of a Utopian correspondent	33
	French society and mainstream politics	33
	The impact of 1789 on Tristan's political ideas	37
	Class formation and class consciousness	42
	Epistolary evidence of political awareness in the 1840s	43
	Protest politics and the growth of literacy	46
	Flora Tristan's political and epistolary apprenticeship	51
	Methodology in epistolary analysis	61
	Letters to Flora Tristan	63
3	Speaking from the heart : the dichotomy of the letters in the 1843 and 1844 correspondence	73
	Dimensions of political letters to a woman activist	82
	Historical dimension of Tristan's political letters	87
	Responses to Flora Tristan's letters	90
	Epistolary community of support	101
	Epistolary creativity	102
	Rival socialist networks and initiatives	104
	Variety of style	106
4	Conflicts of authority in the epistolary creation of Union ouvriere	116
	Letters of investigation	118
	Letters from notables	135
	Letters from a widening circle	149
	Epistolary authority in politics	158
5	Utopia in Flora Tristan's letters	164
	Utopian inspiration for correspondence	164
	Tensions of pragmatism and vision	167
	Gender presence in Tristan's utopia	178
	Bibliography	185
	Index	195