Narratives of the French Revolution

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The French Revolution has fascinated, enraged, and perplexed some of the greatest writers of the last two centuries. In this seminar, we will be reading the whole range of these texts: from theorists like Burke, Tocqueville, and Marx, to literary figures like Carlyle and Dickens, to more recent historians writing from the perspectives of social history, cultural studies, post-structuralism, and colonial studies.