French Revolution Debate in Britain

GREGORY CLAEYS is Professor of the History of Political Thought at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.

• AcknowledgementsChronologyIntroduction: The Origins of Modern Political DiscourseEdmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) and the Origins of ConservatismThomas Paine: Rights of Man (1791-2) and the Origins of RadicalismMary Wollstonecraft: Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and the Origins of FeminismThe Spectre of 'Levelling': Loyalists and Paineites, c.1791-5Varieties of Whiggism: Fox, Sheridan and the Whig Party, 1791-3William Godwin: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) and the Origins of Philisophical AnarchismJohn Thelwall and the Rights of LabourConclusionNotesReading List: Major FiguresIndex.

'Claeys has an enviable gift for expounding lucidly what are often complicated and sophisticated arguments. Any student working on the political and social thought of England in the 1790s will find this a very helpful introduction.' - Tim Blanning, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, UK