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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 24 January 2019

    • ISBN 9780198815594
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages944 pages
    • Size 196x141x42 mm
    • Weight 631 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 18 black & white illustrations
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    Short description:

    Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, originally published in 1837, opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774 and ends in 1795 when Bonaparte quelled the insurrection of the Vendemiaire. It is a work of great narrative and descriptive power that was itself meant to be revolutionary.

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    Long description:

    'It is I think the most radical Book that has been written in these late centuries . . . and will give pleasure and displeasure, one may expect, to almost all classes of persons.' Carlyle

    Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774 and ends with Napoleon suppressing the insurrection of the 13th Vendémaire. Both in Its form and content, the work was intended as a revolt against history writing itself, with Carlyle exploding the eighteenth-century conventions of dignified gentlemanly discourse. Immersing himself in his French sources with unprecedented imaginative and intellectual engagement, he recreates the upheaval in a language that evokes the chaotic atmosphere of the events. In the French Revolution Carlyle achieves the most vivid historical reconstruction of the crisis of his, or any other, age.

    This new edition offers an authoritative text, a comprehensive record of Carlyle's French, English, and German sources, a select bibliography of editions, related writings, and critical studies, chronologies of both Thomas Carlyle and the French Revolution, and a new and full index. In addition, Carlyle's work is placed in the context of both British and European history and writing, and linked to a variety of major figures, including Edward Gibbon, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, Hegel, and R. G. Collingwood.

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

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Note on the Text
    A Chronology of Thomas Carlyle
    Contents, ^iThe French Revolution^r
    THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
    Explanatory Notes
    Annotated Index

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