French Revolution Debate in Britain - The Origins of Modern Politics

Gregory Claeys explores the reception of the French Revolution in Britain through the medium of its leading interpreters. Claeys argues that the major figures - Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and John Thelwall - collectively laid the foundations for political debate for the following century, and longer.>

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction: The Origins of Modern Political Discourse
Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) and the Origins of Conservatism
Thomas Paine: Rights of Man (1791-2) and the Origins of Radicalism
Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and the Origins of Feminism
The Spectre of 'Levelling': Loyalists and Paineites, c.1791-5
Varieties of Whiggism: Fox, Sheridan and the Whig Party, 1791-3
William Godwin: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) and the Origins of Philisophical Anarchism
John Thelwall and the Rights of Labour
Conclusion
Notes
Reading List: Major Figures
Index.

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Gregory Claeys

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Claeys, Claeys Gregory
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2007
• EAN: 9780333626467
• ISBN: 978-0-333-62646-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: British History in Perspective; British History in Perspective
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; B, History, France—History, History of France, Britain;chronology;France;revolution