The French Revolution
$32.95
- Paperback
944 pages
- Release Date
6 February 2019
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198815594 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 019881559X |
| Author: | Thomas Carlyle, David R. Sorensen, Brent E. Kinser, Mark Engel |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 944 |
| Release Date: | 6 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 631g |
| Dimensions: | 42mm x 141mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Critics Review
“This edition makes the work decipherable in ways it otherwise isn’t.” – Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal
This edition makes the work decipherable in ways it otherwise isn’t. * Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal *
Excellent edition * Years Work in English Studies, 2021 *
Thomas Carlyle
David R. Sorensen
David R. Sorensen is Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University and Associate Director of its Honors Program. He is a Senior Editor of the Duke-Edinburgh Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (1970-ongoing).
Selected Editorial Work:
- Carlyle’s The French Revolution (Oxford, 1989) (with K. J. Fielding)
- Jane Carlyle: New Selected Letters (Ashgate, 2004) (with K. J. Fielding)
- The Carlyles at Home and Abroad (Ashgate, 2004) (with Rodger L. Tarr)
- Carlyle’s On Heroes and Hero-Worship (Yale, 2013) (with Brent E. Kinser)
He is co-editor of Carlyle Studies Annual and a founding director of the Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium (2011- ).
Brent E. Kinser
Brent E. Kinser is Professor of English and Department Head at Western Carolina University. He is the author of The American Civil War and the Shaping of British Democracy (Ashgate, 2011).
Selected Editorial Work:
- Coordinating Editor of The Carlyle Letters Online (Duke UP, 2007- )
- Editor for The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Duke UP, 1970- )
- Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (New Haven, 2013) (co-editor with David R. Sorensen)
He is co-editor of Carlyle Studies Annual and a founding director of the Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium (2011- ).
Mark Engel
Mark Engel is a professional editor and independent scholar.
Selected Editorial Work:
- Carlyle’s On, Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Berkeley, 1993) (with Michael K. Goldberg and Joel J. Brattin)
- Sartor Resartus (Berkeley, 2000) (with Rodger L. Tarr)
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