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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-100313304963

ISBN-139780313304965

eBay Product ID (ePID)254453

Product Key Features

Number of Pages176 Pages

Publication NameFrench Revolution Debate in English Literature and Culture

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1997

SubjectEurope / France, General, Subjects & Themes / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

AuthorLisa P. Crafton

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History

SeriesContributions to the Study of World Literature Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight15.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN97-013719

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"[T]hese essays are on major topics, are intelligently argued, and present stimulating theses worth the attention of scholars interested in the literature and culture of Britain in the 1790s." Albion

TitleLeadingThe

Series Volume NumberVol. 87

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal820.9/358

Table Of ContentChronology Introduction Burke's Perception of Richard Price by John Faulkner Religion and Politics in the Revolution Debate: Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine by Patricia Howell Michaelson The "Ancient Voices" of Blake's The French Revolution by Lisa Plummer Crafton Arguing Benevolence: Wordsworth, Godwin, and the 1790s by Evan Radcliffe "Great Burke," Thomas Carlyle, and the French Revolution by Lowell T. Frye Politics of the Episteme: The Collapse of the Discourse of General Nature and the Reaction to the French Revolution by Paul Trolander Representations of Revolutionary Women in Political Caricature by Jane Kromm Epilogue by David Bromwich Select Bibliography Index

SynopsisIn the struggle for democratic reform, and in its ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity, the French Revolution represented a broad humanistic spirit that swept across Europe at the close of the 18th century. The Revolution fostered one of the largest and broadest debates in literary and cultural history, a war of ideas that encompassed philosophy, theories of history, the study of language, and the history of art. This debate is reflected in a large body of literature that extends well into the 19th century. The debate in England was particularly strong, and in 1789, the London Corresponding Society remarked that the French Revolution was the topic to which all thinking minds were drawn. During the 20th century, scholars have given much attention to the link between the Revolution and Romanticism. Within this volume, expert contributors examine the centrality of the French Revolution to English culture in the 18th and 19th centuries. The book offers a sweeping exploration of the diverse effects of the Revolution in verbal and visual art, poetry and prose, history and fiction, politics and religion, and philosophy and language theory. Among the figures discussed are Edmund Burke, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Thomas Carlyle. By analyzing a broad range of writers and artists who shaped and were shaped by the French Revolution, the volume dramatizes the scope and diversity of the debate, thus offering an interdisciplinary analysis of the debate as a whole and an emphasis on the extent to which all thinking minds were drawn to the topic.

LC Classification NumberPR129