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The French & American Revolutions

Paine (Thomas), The Rights of Man [Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution], in Collected Writings, ed. Eric Foner (Library of America, New York, c.1995), or ed. Henry Collins (Harmondsworth, Middx, 1969, reissued in Penguin Classics, London 1985, with intro. by Eric Foner), or in Rights of Man; Common Sense; and Other Writings, ed. Mark Philip (World's Classics, Oxford, 1995); see also Political Writings, ed. Bruce Kuklick (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, Cambridge, 1989), and Keane (John), Tom Paine; A Political Life (London, 1996). Boulton (James T.), The Language of Politics in the Age of Wilkes and Burke (London, 1963); on Wilkes see also Thomas (Peter D.G.), John Wilkes; A Friend to Liberty (Oxford, 1996). Paulson (Ronald), Representations of Revolution, 1789-1820 (New Haven, Conn., and London, c.1983). Butler (Marilyn) (ed.), Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy (Cambridge, 1984). Thompson (E.P.), The Romantics; England in a Revolutionary Age (Woodbridge, c.1997). Hilton (Boyd), A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?; England, 1783-1846 (Oxford, 2006). Schama (Simon), Citizens; A Chronicle of the French Revolution (London, 1989). Mayer (Arno J.), The Furies; Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions (Princeton, N.J., 2000) [synoptic overview]. Keach (William), Arbitrary Power; Romanticism, Language, Politics (Princeton, 2004). Barrell (John), The Spirit of Despotism; Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s (Oxford, 2006). Pocock (J.G.A.), 'The Political Economy of Burke's Analysis of the French Revolution', in his Virtue, Commerce, and History; Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, 1985). Deane (Seamus), The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, 1789- 1832 (Cambridge, Mass., 1988). Prickett (Stephen) (ed.), England and the French Revolution (London, 1989). Christensen (Jerome), 'Ecce Homo; Biographical Acknowledgement, the End of the French Revolution, and the Romantic Reinvention of English Verse', in Epstein (William H.) (ed.), Contesting the Subject; Essays in Postmodern Theory and Practice of Biography and Biographical Criticism 2 (West Lafayette, Ind., 1991), pp. 53-83]. Magnuson (Paul), 'The Politics of "Frost at Midnight"', in his Reading Public Romanticism (Princeton, 1998), Chap. 3 (pp. 67-94). Dart (Gregory), Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism (Cambridge, 1999). Scott (Iain Robertson), '"Things As They Are": the Literary Response to the French Revolution 1789-1815', in H.T. Dickinson (ed.), Britain and the French Revolution, 1789-1815 (Houndmills, 1989, reprinted, 1994). Bindman (D.), 'My own mind is my own church': Blake, Paine and the French Revolution' in Alison Yarrington and Kelvin Everest (eds), Reflections of Revolution; Images of Romanticism (London, 1993). Rawson (Claude), 'Revolution in the Moral Wardrobe: Mutations of an Image from Dryden to Burke', in his Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1830 (Cambridge, 1994). Jefferson (Thomas), A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774), in M.D. Peterson (ed.), Writings . . . (Library of America, Cambridge, c.1984); see also O'Brien (Conor Cruise), The Long Affair; Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution (London, 1996 and reprinted). Price (Richard), Political Writings, ed. D.O. Thomas (Cambridge, 1991). Beloff (Max) (ed.), The Debate on the American Revolution, 1761-1783 (2nd ed., London, 1960). Blake (William), 'America, A Prophecy' [1793/4] and 'Europe, A Prophecy' [1794] [colour facsimiles] (Dover, New York, 1983). Epstein (James), Radical Expression; Political Language, Ritual, and Symbol in England, 1790-1850 (New York, 1994). Spence (Peter), The Birth of Romantic Radicalism; War, Popular Politics, and English Radical Reformism, 1800-1815 (Aldershot, 1996). Perry (Keith), British Politics and the American Revolution (Basingstoke, 1990). Thomas (Peter D. G.), Revolution in America; Britain and the Colonies, 1763- 1776 (Cardiff, 1992) [brisk overview with selected docs & useful critical bibliog., though entries barely into the 1990's]. Pocock (J.G.A.), 'Political Thought in the English-Speaking Atlantic, 1760- 1790; Part 2: Empire, Revolution and the End of Early Modernity', in Pocock (ed.), The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800 (Cambridge, 1993). Durey (Michael), Transatlantic Radicals and the Early American Republic (Lawrence, Kansas, 1997).

EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797)

Burke (Edmund), Pre-Revolutionary Writings, ed. I. Harris (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, Cambridge, 1993). 3 Burke (Edmund), Reflections on the Revolution in France: and on the Pro- ceedings in Certain Societies Relative to that Event, ed. Conor Cruise O'Brien (Harmondsworth, Middx, 1968 and reprinted), or ed. J.G.A. Pocock (Indianapolis, c.1987). Lock (F.P.), Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (London, 1985). Pocock (J.G.A.), 'The Political Economy of Burke's Analysis of the French Revolution', in his Virtue, Commerce, and History; Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, 1985). Ritcheson (Charles R.), Edmund Burke and the American Revolution (Sir George Watson Lecture; Leicester, 1976). Kramnick (Isaac), The Rage of Edmund Burke; Portrait of an Ambivalent Conservative (New York, 1977). Blakemore (Steven), Burke and the Fall of Language; The French Revolution as Linguistic Event (Hanover, N.H., c.1988). Burke (Edmund), A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful [1757], ed. J.T. Boulton (rev. ed., Oxford, 1987), or ed. David Womersley (Penguin, London, 1998). Ferguson (Frances), Solitude and the Sublime; Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Individuation (London, 1992). De Luca (Vincent Arthur), Words of Eternity; Blake and the Poetics of the Sublime (Princeton, 1991). Furniss (Tom), Edmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideology (Cambridge, 1993). Lamb (Jonathan), 'The Sublime', in H.B. Nisbet and Claude Rawson (eds), The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. 4: The Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, 1997), pp. 394-416. O'Brien (Conor Cruise), The Great Melody; A Thematic Biography and Com- mented Anthology of Edmund Burke (London, 1992). Bruyn (Frans de), The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke; The Political Uses of Literary Form (Oxford, 1996) [incl. extensive bibliography].

WILLIAM GODWIN (1756-1836)

Godwin (William), Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness [the 3rd ed., of 1798], ed. I. Kramnick (Harmondsworth, Middx, 1976 and reprinted). Philip (Mark), Godwin's Political Justice (London, 1986). Godwin (William), Caleb Williams, ed. D. McCracken (London, 1970 and reprinted) or ed. G. Sherburn (New York, 1960 and reprinted). Butler (Marilyn), Godwin, Burke, and Caleb Williams', Essays in Criticism, 32 (1982), 237-57; reprinted in Duncan Wu (ed.), Romanticism; A Critical Reader (Oxford, 1995), pp. 343-58. 4 Fludernik (Monica), 'William Godwin's Caleb Williams: The Tarnishing of the Sublime', ELH, 68 (2001), 857-96. Locke (Don), A Fantasy of Reason; The Life and Thought of William Godwin (London, 1980). Marshall (Peter H.), William Godwin (New Haven, Conn., 1984). Clemit (Pamela), The Godwinian Novel; The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley (Oxford, 1993). Zimmerman (Everett), The Boundaries of Fiction; History and the Eighteenth- Century British Novel (Ithaca, N.Y., 1996).

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY, neé GODWIN (1797-1851)

Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft), The Mary Shelley Reader: Containing Frank- enstein, Mathilda, Tales and Stories, Essays and Reviews, and Letters, ed. Betty T. Bennett and Charles E. Robinson (New York, 1990).

Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft), Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, ed. Marilyn Butler (Pickering, London, 1993) [full intro. & notes], or ed. Maurice Hindle (Penguin Classics, London, 2003), or ed. David Stevens (Cambridge, 1998), or ed. J. Paul Hunter (Norton, New York, c.1996) [1818 text plus contemp. & modern critiques]. Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft), Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, Complete Authoritative Text with Biographical, Historical, and Cultural Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Contemporary Critical Perspectives, ed. Johanna M. Smith (2nd ed., Boston and Basingstoke, c.2000). Robinson (Charles E.) (ed.), The Frankenstein Notebooks; A Facsimile Edition of Mary Shelley's Manuscript Novel, 1816-17 ... (2 vols, Garland, New York, 1996). Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft), The Last Man, ed. Morton D. Paley (World's Classics, Oxford, 1994), or ed. Jane Blumberg and Nora Crook (Pick- ering, London, 1996), or ed. Hugh J. Luke, Jr (Lincoln, Nebr., c.1993). Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft), Collected Tales and Stories, with Original Engravings, ed. Charles E. Robinson (Baltimore, Md, 1976). Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft), The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844, ed. Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert (2 vols, Oxford, 1987; reprinted in one vol., Baltimore, Md, 1995). Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft), The Letters, ed. Betty T. Bennett (2 vols, Baltimore, Md, 1980-88). St. Clair (William), The Godwins and the Shelleys; The Biography of a Family (London, 1989). Gittings (Robert) and Manton (Jo), Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys, 1798- 1879 (Oxford, 1992, and reprinted). 5 Bennett (Betty T.) and Curran (Stuart) (eds), Mary Shelley in Her Times (Baltimore, Md, c.2000). Alexander (Meena), Women in Romanticism; Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley (Basingstoke, 1989). Baldick (Chris), In Frankenstein's Shadow; Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth- Century Writing (Oxford, 1987). Brennan (Matthew), 'The Landscape of Grief in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein', Studies in the Humanities, 15 (1988), 33-44. Clemit (Pamela), The Godwinian Novel; The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley (Oxford, 1993). Conger (Syndy M.), Mary Wollstonecraft and the Language of Sensibility (Rutherford, N.J., c.1994). Marshall (David), The Surprising Effects of Sympathy; Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley (Chicago, 1988). Randel (Fred V.), 'The Political Geography of Horror in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein', ELH 70 (2003), 465-91. Richardson (Alan), 'From Émile to Frankenstein; The Education of Monsters', in his Literature, Education and Romanticism; Reading as Social Practice, 1780-1832 (Cambridge, 1994). St Clair (William), 'Frankenstein', in his The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge, 2004), Chap. 10 (pp. 357-73). Williams (Huntington), Rousseau and Romantic Autobiography (Oxford, 1983); see also W.J.T. Mitchell, 'Influence, Autobiography, and Literary History: Rousseau's Confessions and Wordsworth's The Prelude', ELH, 57 (1990), 643-64. Kearns (Sheila M.), Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Romantic Autobiography; Reading Strategies of Self-Representation (Madison, N.J., 1995); see also Vincent (David), Bread, Knowledge and Freedom; A Study of Nineteenth- Century Working Class Autobiography (London, 1981), and Treadwell (James), Autobiographical Writing and British Literature, 1783-1834 (Oxford, 2006).

J.H. Prynne, April 2006

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