The French Revolution (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Carlyle
- First Published: 1837
- Type of Work: History
- Principal Characters: King Louis XV, King Louis XVI, Queen Marie Antoinette, Danton, Marat, Robespierre, Turgot, Napoleon Bonaparte, Count Fersen
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: France or French people, Revolutions, Eighteenth century, French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars
The French Revolution is a landmark in the history of nineteenth century English literature, the work that, after the comparative public failure of Sartor Resartus (1833-1834), helped to establish Thomas Carlyle. In its dramatic picture of the French Revolution it offers the reader an estimate of an event that had disturbed and shocked the consciences of Carlyle’s grandparents. It offers a measure of revolutionary and socially disruptive narrative but it is neither optimistic and blindly trustful of progress (here Carlyle differed from Utilitarian friends) nor...
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