Robespierre
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- Editors:
- Colin Haydon, King Alfred's College of Higher Education, Winchester
- William Doyle, University of Bristol
- Date Published: April 2006
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521026055
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Maximilien Robespierre is one of the greatest figures of European history but is at the same time one of the most reviled and revered. The essays in this volume seek to explain these contradictory views of Robespierre. They provide a balanced and up-to-date account of Robespierre's life and work by looking in turn at his ideology and vision of the Revolution, his role in the political life of Revolutionary France, and finally at representations of Robespierre in the history, drama and fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Read more- Balanced and up-to-date account of one of the great figures in European history whose memory still provokes admiration from some and loathing from others
- International group of scholars shed light on facets of Robespierre's ideology, life, career and reputuation
- Examines not only how Robespierre has been represented by historians, but also how he has been represented in nineteenth- and twentieth-century drama and fiction
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'The authors are the leading scholars in their field and each essay is presented with impressive clarity of thought and expression.' London Review of Books
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- Date Published: April 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521026055
- length: 304 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.445kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Abbrevations
Part I. Introduction:
1. Robespierre: after two hundred years William Doyle and Colin Haydon
2. The Robespierre problem David P. Jordan
Part II. Robespierre's Outlook:
3. Robespierre's political principles Marisa Linton
4. Robespierre and revolutionary heroism A. Jourdan
5. Robespierre and conspiracy theories Geoffrey Cubitt
6. Robespierre and religion Frank Tallett
Part III. Robespierre's Politics:
7. Robespierre and the press Hugh Gough
8. Robespierre, the war and its organisation Alan Forrest
9. Robespierre and the insurrection of 31 May–2 June 1793 Morris Slavin
10. Robespierre and the Terror Norman Hampson
Part IV. Robespierre in Retrospect:
11. Carlyle's seagreen Robespierre and the perilous delights of picturesque history Mark Cumming
12. Robespierre through the Chartist looking-glass Gwynne Lewis
13. Rehabilitating Robespierre: Albert Mathiez and Georges Lefebvre as defenders of the incorruptible James Friguglietti
14. Robespierre in French fiction Malcolm Cook
15. The representation of Robespierre in European drama William D. Howarth
Part V. Conclusion:
16. French historians and Robespierre François Crouzet.
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