This volume of essays by distinguished British and North American scholars examines British responses to the French Revolution and the ways in which the idea of the Revolution was mediated into British culture.  The manner in which the culture of one country appropriates the culture of another is complex and is a process which develops over time.  After the initial political impact of the French Revolution, facts and events were transformed and reinterpreted within British culture. For the modern intellectual historian, what is significant is the variety of ways in which British culture represented the French Revolution and assigned meanings to it.  The Revolution exercised its greatest influence on politics and political thought, but it is equally possible to trace its presence in such diverse areas as economic and social history, historiography and sociology, literature, and political philosophy--topics which are all represented in this volume.

The French Revolution and British Culture

History

Crossley, Ceri

Americas

Oxford University Press

French Historians and Romanticism: Thierry, Guizot, the Saint-Simonians, Quinet, Michelet

<p>The French Revolution had a profound influence on perceptions of the past as well as setting the agenda for modern political culture. This book examines the ways in which the past was rediscovered, retrieved and represented in post-revolutionary France, concentrating upon the Restoration and the July Monarchy, the period which witnessed the promotion of history as a grand discourse of legitimation.</p>

Europe

Routledge

The French Revolution had a profound influence on perceptions of the past as well as setting the agenda for modern political culture. This book examines the ways in which the past was rediscovered, retrieved and represented in post-revolutionary France, concentrating upon the Restoration and the July Monarchy, the period which witnessed the promotion of history as a grand discourse of legitimation.

French Historians and Romanticism

Musset: Lorenzaccio (Critical Guides to FrenchTexts)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Grant & Cutler Ltd.

This book studies the various definitions of animal nature proposed by nineteenth-century currents of thought in France. It is based on an examination of a number of key thinkers and writers, some well known (for example, Michelet and Lamartine), others largely forgotten (for example, Gleizes and Reynaud). At the centre of the book lies the idea that knowledge of animals is often knowledge of something else, that the primary referentiality is overlaid with additional levels of meaning. In nineteenth-century France thinking about animals (their future and their past) became a way of thinking about power relations in society, for example about the status of women and the problem of the labouring classes. This book analyses how animals as symbols externalize and mythologize human fears and wishes, but it also demonstrates that animals have an existence in and for themselves and are not simply useful counters functioning within discourse.

Consumable Metaphors: Attitudes Towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-Century France (French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,)

History & Criticism

Peter Lang Publishing

Consumable Metaphors: Attitudes towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-Century France (French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries)

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

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