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On 1 November 1790 Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France precipitated a debate over the French Revolution that has continued for two centuries. Burke's Reflections provoked hundreds of replies, igniting a huge intertextual war. In this study, the author focuses on the three works that continue to be cited in criticism of Burke: Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, and James Mackintosh's Vindiciae Gallicae. These writers established the anti-Burke paradigms that continue to reverberate in Anglo-American criticism and the…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1997Fairleigh Dickinson University Press · 256 pages · 9780838637517
HistoryHistoriographyLiterature and the revolutionBurke, edmund, 1729-1797Wollstonecraft, mary, 1759-1797Paine, thomas, 1737-1809France, history, revolution, 1789-1799French Revolution
