The French Revolution and Victorian England (original) (raw)

Introductory materials

• A Brief Introduction
• G. H. Lewes on the Gathering Storm
• Rousseau’s Le Contract Social as the “Bible of the Revolution”
• Kingsley’s Defence of Rousseau and the Philosophes
• A Victorian Assessment of the Accomplishments of the Constituent Assembly
• Famine in Paris and Mob Violence
• The French Revolution & Constitutional Monarchy
• The Isolation of Kings
• Charles Kingsley: “That purifying fire was needed”
• Against Centralization — the Example of Pre- and Post-Revolutionary France
• Timothy Mole on how the French Revolution prompted the Victorian Invention of Modernity
• Olivier Pinel's La Révolution française, a website containing a detailed chronology plus a list of orghanizations and all those executed in the Terror (in the French section of the Victorian Web)

Individuals

• Maximilien Robespierre — G. H. Lewes’s Final Judgment
• The Religion of Robespierre
• Robespierre's moral incorruptibility & the September affair
• Robespierre's changing views of royalty and the growth of his republicanism
• Robespierre’s views of universal education
• The Death of Marat and Robespierre's responsibility for the Terror

The French Revolution and Victorian Literature and Art

• Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution (homepage/sitemap)
• The French Revolution in the Popular Imagination: A Tale of Two Cities
• Images of the French Revolution from Various Editions of A Tale of Two Cities (1859-1910)
• Historical Novels about the French Revolution

Selected Online Texts and Related Resources

• Olivier Pinel's site containing a detailed chronology plus a list of all those executed in the Terror (in French)
• Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. HathiTrust. Accessed 19 January 2024.
• Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason. Project Gutenberg. Accessed 19 January 2024.
• Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man. Project Gutenberg. Accessed 19 January 2024.

Last modified 17 January 2024