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The French Revolution

Autor Thomas Carlyle Editat de A. H. R. Ball
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 feb 2014
Originally published in 1930, this book contains a series of extracts from Thomas Carlyle's influential three-volume work The French Revolution: A History (1837). The text was compiled with the intention of providing a 'representation both of Carlyle's delineation of the Revolution, and of his poetic scheme of history'. Continuity of narrative is ensured through the use of short explanatory link passages which are inserted between extracts. A detailed editorial introduction is also included, with information on the text, Carlyle's life and his conception of history. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Carlyle's writings and perspectives on the French Revolution.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107652972
ISBN-10: 1107652979
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Preface; Introduction; 1. Death of Louis XV; 2. The new age; 3. The notables; 4. The states-general; 5. The third estate; 6. To arms!; 7. Fall of the Bastille; 8. Revolution; 9. The Menads; 10. The King at Paris; 11. The army; 12. The clubs; 13. Mirabeau; 14. Flight of the King; 15. The constitution; 16. Europe; 17. The Jacobins; 18. The Marseilleise; 19. The Swiss; 20. The commune; 21. The September massacres; 22. The cannonade of Valmy; 23. Execution of Louis XVI; 24. Girondins and mountain; 25. The committees; 26. The new calendar; 27. Death of Marat; 28. Marie-Antoinette; 29. The reign of terror; 30. The feast of reason; 31. The new Paris; 32. Danton, no weakness; 33. Feast of the être suprême; 34. Robespierre; 35. Decline of revolution; 36. The army; 37. The whiff of grapeshot; 38. Finis; Appendixes; Index of proper names; Glossary.

Descriere

This book contains a series of extracts from Thomas Carlyle's influential three-volume work The French Revolution: A History (1837).

Recenzii

This edition makes the work decipherable in ways it otherwise isn't.
Excellent edition

Notă biografică

David R. Sorensen is professor of English at Saint Joseph's University and associate director of its Honors Program. He is a senior editor of the Duke-Edinburgh Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (1970-ongoing), and has edited with K. J. Fielding, Carlyle's The French Revolution (Oxford, 1989) and Jane Carlyle: New Selected Letters (Ashgate, 2004), with Rodger L. Tarr, The Carlyles at Home and Abroad (Ashgate, 2004), and with Brent E. Kinser, Carlyle's On Heroes and Hero-Worship (Yale, 2013). He is co-editor of Carlyle Studies Annual and a founding director of the Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium (2011- ).Brent E. Kinser is professor of English and department Head at Western Carolina University. He is the author of The American Civil War and the Shaping of British Democracy (Ashgate, 2011), and the coordinating editor of The Carlyle Letters Online (Duke UP, 2007- ; ), the electronic edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Duke UP, 1970- ), for which he serves as an editor. He is co-editor (with David R. Sorensen) of Carlyle's On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (New Haven, 2013) He is co-editor Carlyle Studies Annual and a founding director of the Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium (2011- ). Mark Engel is a professional editor and independent scholar. He has edited with Michael K. Goldberg and Joel J. Brattin, Carlyle's On, Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Berkeley, 1993) and with Rodger L. Tarr, Sartor Resartus (Berkeley, 2000).