The Debate on the French Revolution, 1789-1800
Author | : Alfred Cobban |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alfred Cobban |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Gwynne Lewis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134937415 |
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Peter J. Davies |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2024-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526183692 |
This book deals with the various types of revolutionary history and the numerous schools of historical thought concerned with the French Revolution. By the time of the Bicentenary celebrations in 1989, the historiographical field had been opened up so much that it was impossible to speak with certainty about any kind of new 'orthodoxy' at all. The fact that the decade and a half following the Bicentenary offered up its own hotchpotch of theorising merely confirmed this. The survey of writings presents a cross-section of historians of the Revolution from the early nineteenth century right up to the present day. From liberals to conservatives and from Marxists to revisionists, it focuses on those individuals who are generally perceived to be the 'major' or 'pre-eminent' figures within revolutionary historiography. A ‘history of the histories’, this book will be an ideal starting point for those students seeking to better-understand the French Revolution and its history.
Author | : Peter Davies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9787807190707 |
Author | : Gary Kates |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : 9780415358323 |
Collating key texts at the forefront of new research and interpretation, this updated second edition adds new articles on the Terror and race/colonial issues, and studies all aspects of this major event, from its origins through to its consequences.
Author | : Wil Verhoeven |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2013-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107040191 |
This book explores the evolution of British identity and participatory politics in the 1790s. Wil Verhoeven argues that in the course of the French Revolution debate in Britain, the idea of "America" came to represent for the British people the choice between two diametrically opposed models of social justice and political participation. Yet the American Revolution controversy in the 1790s was by no means an isolated phenomenon. The controversy began with the American crisis debate of the 1760s and 1770s, which overlapped with a wider Enlightenment debate about transatlantic utopianism. All of these debates were based in the material world on the availability of vast quantities of cheap American land. Verhoeven investigates the relation that existed throughout the eighteenth century between American soil and the discourse of transatlantic utopianism: between America as a physical, geographical space, and "America" as a utopian/dystopian idea-image.
Author | : Alfred Cobban |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Paul R. Hanson |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2009-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1405160837 |
Contesting the French Revolution provides an insightful overview of one of history’s most significant events, as well as examining the most significant historiographical debates about this period. Explores the causes, events, and consequences of the French Revolution Offers a stimulating analysis of the most controversial debates: Were the events of 1789 a social revolution or a political accident? Did they mark the rise of industrial capitalism or the birth of modern democracy? Was Napoleon Bonaparte an heir to the ideals of 1789 or a betrayer of the Revolution? Shows how historical interpretation of the French Revolution has been influenced by the changing political and social currents of the last 200 years – from the Russian Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall – and how historical study has shifted from a political focus to social and cultural approaches in more recent years.
Author | : Morgan Rooney |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2012-11-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1611484774 |
This study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814. During these years, intersections between history, political ideology, and fiction, as well as the various meanings of the term “history” itself, were multiple and far reaching. Morgan Rooney elucidates these subtleties clearly and convincingly. While political writers of the 1790s – Burke, Price, Mackintosh, Paine, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and others – debate the historical meaning of the Glorious Revolution as a prelude to broader ideological arguments about the significance of the past for the present and future, novelists engage with this discourse by representing moments of the past or otherwise vying to enlist the authority of history to further a reformist or loyalist agenda. Anti-Jacobin novelists such as Charles Walker, Robert Bisset, and Jane West draw on Burkean historical discourse to characterize the reform movement as ignorant of the complex operations of historical accretion. For their part, reform-minded novelists such as Charlotte Smith, William Godwin, and Maria Edgeworth travesty Burke’s tropes and arguments so as to undermine and then redefine the category of history. As the Revolution crisis recedes, new novel forms such as Edgeworth’s regional novel, Lady Morgan’s national tale, and Jane Porter’s early historical fiction emerge, but historical representation—largely the legacy of the 1790s’ novel—remains an increasingly pronounced feature of the genre. Whereas the representation of history in the novel, Rooney argues, is initially used strategically by novelists involved in the Revolution debate, it is appropriated in the early nineteenth century by authors such as Edgeworth, Morgan, and Porter for other, often related ideological purposes before ultimately developing into a stable, non-partisan, aestheticized feature of the form as practised by Walter Scott. The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790–1814 demonstrates that the transformation of the novel at this fascinating juncture of British political and literary history contributes to the emergence of the historical novel as it was first realized in Scott’s Waverley (1814).
Author | : Mary Wollstonecraft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 1794 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |