{"product_id":"the-french-revolution-9780198815594","title":"The French Revolution","description":"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 Vendemaire. 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 \u003cem\u003eFrench Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e Carlyle achieves the most vivid historical reconstruction of the crisis of his, or any other, age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid R. Sorensen\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at Saint Joseph's University and Associate Director of its Honors Program. He is a senior editor of the \u003cem\u003eDuke-Edinburgh Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle\u003c\/em\u003e (1970-ongoing), and has edited with K. J. Fielding, Carlyle's \u003cem\u003eThe French Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 1989) and \u003cem\u003eJane Carlyle: New Selected Letters\u003c\/em\u003e (Ashgate, 2004), with Rodger L. Tarr, \u003cem\u003eThe Carlyles at Home and Abroad\u003c\/em\u003e (Ashgate, 2004), and with Brent E. Kinser, Carlyle's \u003cem\u003eOn Heroes and Hero-Worship\u003c\/em\u003e (Yale, 2013). He is co-editor of \u003cem\u003eCarlyle Studies Annual\u003c\/em\u003e and a founding director of the \u003cem\u003eVictorian Lives and Letters Consortium\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrent E. Kinser\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English and department Head at Western Carolina University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe American Civil War and the Shaping of British Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e (Ashgate, 2011), and the coordinating editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Carlyle Letters Online\u003c\/em\u003e, the electronic edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle\u003c\/em\u003e, for which he serves as an editor. He is co-editor (with David R. Sorensen) of Carlyle's \u003cem\u003eOn Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History\u003c\/em\u003e (New Haven, 2013) He is co-editor \u003cem\u003eCarlyle Studies Annual\u003c\/em\u003e and a founding director of the \u003cem\u003eVictorian Lives and Letters Consortium\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Engel\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professional editor and independent scholar. He has edited with Michael K. Goldberg and Joel J. Brattin, Carlyle's \u003cem\u003eOn, Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History\u003c\/em\u003e (Berkeley, 1993) and with Rodger L. Tarr, \u003cem\u003eSartor Resartus\u003c\/em\u003e (Berkeley, 2000).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50674727878930,"sku":"9780198815594","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_da8c333f-d4ac-45f0-848a-42edd788bf60.jpg?v=1733864487","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-french-revolution-9780198815594","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}