Vindiciae Gallicae - Defence of the French Revolution

Informationen zum Autor EDMUND GARRATT was educated at the University of Sussex and at Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests lie in Eighteenth-century Literature and History. He has published essays on James Mackintosh, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Lamb. He currently lives and works in Cambridgeshire. Klappentext This new edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindiciæ Gallicæ and an appendix which includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindiciæ Gallicæ in the late summer of 1791. Zusammenfassung This new edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindiciæ Gallicæ and an appendix which includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindiciæ Gallicæ in the late summer of 1791. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The publication of James Mackintosh's Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791) The Scottish underpinning of Vindiciæ Gallicæ Mackintosh's 'philosophical' history of the French Revolution The defence of the National Assembly The violence of the French Revolution The defence of the new French Constitution of 1791 The defence of the principles of 1688 Mackintosh's revision of Vindiciæ Gallicæ Note on the Text Selected Reading Vindiciæ Gallicæ Appendix

List of contents

Introduction The publication of James Mackintosh's Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791) The Scottish underpinning of Vindiciæ Gallicæ Mackintosh's 'philosophical' history of the French Revolution The defence of the National Assembly The violence of the French Revolution The defence of the new French Constitution of 1791 The defence of the principles of 1688 Mackintosh's revision of Vindiciæ Gallicæ Note on the Text Selected Reading Vindiciæ Gallicæ Appendix

Product details

• Authors: J Mackintosh, J. Mackintosh
• Assisted by: Garratt (Editor), E Garratt (Editor), E. Garratt (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349357598
• ISBN: 978-1-349-35759-8
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Studies in Modern History; Studies in Modern History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, Literature, History, European History, Literature: history & criticism, Literature, general, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, European Literature, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—18th century, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, Europe—History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Biography, Literature and Literary studies