During the French Revolution, traditional literary forms such as the sentimental novel and the moral tale dominate literary production. At first glance, it migh
This book examines diverse encounters between the British community and the thousands of French individuals who sought haven in the British Isles as they left r
Over the last decade, the theatre and opera of the French Revolution have been the subject of intense scholarly reassessment, both in terms of the relationship
In many ways the French Revolution--a series of revolutions, in fact, whose end has arguably not yet arrived--is modernity in action. Beginning in reform, it bl
For most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, classical dogma and royal censorship worked together to prevent French plays from commenting on, or even w
