Select Bibliography

Other Editions

In addition to the forthcoming three-volume Oxford English Texts edition of Carlyle’s The French Revolution edited by Mark Cumming, Mark Engel, and David R. Sorensen, see:

The French Revolution: A History in Three Parts, ed. C. R. L. Fletcher, 3 vols (London: Methuen, 1902).

The French Revolution: A History, ed. John Holland Rose, 3 vols (London: Bell, 1902).

The French Revolution: A History, intro. Hilaire Belloc, Everyman’s Library Edition (London and New York: Dent & Dutton, 1906).

The French Revolution, abridged and ed. A. H. R. Ball (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930).

The French Revolution: A History, ed. K. J. Fielding and David Sorensen, World’s Classics Edition (London: Oxford University Press, 1989).

Carlyle’s The French Revolution, intro. and selected by Ruth Scurr (London: Continuum, 2010).

Other Works by Carlyle

Carlyle Letters Online, ed. Brent E. Kinser <http://www.carlyleletters.dukeupress.edu> (accessed 9 June 2018).

The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle, ed. H. D. Traill, Centenary Edition, 30 vols (London: Chapman and Hall, 1896–9).

Historical Essays, ed. Chris R. Vanden Bossche (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002).

Lectures on the History of English Literature Delivered April to July 1838, ed. J. R. Greene (London: Ellis & Elvey, 1892).

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History, ed. Michael Goldberg (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993).

Past and Present, ed. Chris R. Vanden Bossche (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005).

Reminiscences, ed. K. J. Fielding and Ian Campbell (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 1997).

Two Note Books of Thomas Carlyle, from 23d March 1822 to 16th May 1832, ed. Charles Eliot Norton (New York: Grolier, 1898).

Biographies, Letters, Notebooks, and General Reference

Campbell, Ian, Thomas Carlyle, 2nd edn (1973; repr. Edinburgh: Kennedy and Boyd, 2011).

Campbell, Ian, Aileen Christianson, David R. Sorensen, et al. (eds), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Duke–Edinburgh Edition, 45 vols (Durham: Duke University Press, 1970–2017, ongoing).

Cumming, Mark (ed.), The Carlyle Encyclopedia (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004).

Froude, James Anthony, Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of his Life, 1795–1835; A History of his Life in London, 1834–1881, 4 vols (London: Longmans, Green, 1882, 1884).

Heffer, Simon, Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995).

Heyrendt, Catherine, ‘Carlyle et la France’, Doctoral dissertation, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2006.

Kaplan, Fred, Thomas Carlyle: A Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).

Morrow, John, Thomas Carlyle (London: Bloomsbury, 2006).

Seigel, Jules (ed.), Thomas Carlyle: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971).

Wilson, David Alec, Carlyle, 6 vols (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Trübner, 1923–34).

Bibliographies and Manuscripts

Fielding, Kenneth J., and David R. Sorensen, ‘ “The Feast of Pikes”—Corrected Proof, [18—]’, Carlyle Studies Annual, 22 (2006), 7–84.

Frame, Frances, Thomas Carlyle: A Documentary Volume, in Dictionary of Literary Biography, 338 (London: Thomson Gale, 2008).

Kinser, Brent E., ‘Digital Facsimile of Carlyle’s MS Notes for “The Diamond Necklace” ’, Carlyle Studies Annual, 23 (2007), 147–56.

Kinser, Brent E., ‘ “The Feast of Pikes”—Facsimile’, Carlyle Studies Annual, 22 (2006), 85–177.

Rosenbaum, Barbara, and Pamela White, Index of English Literary Manuscripts, 4.1: 1800–1900 (London: Mansell, 1982).

Sorensen, David R., ‘Thomas Carlyle’s MS Notes for “The Diamond Necklace” ’, Carlyle Studies Annual, 23 (2007), 119–46.

Sorensen, David R., and Brent E. Kinser (eds), Carlyle Studies Annual: A Journal of the Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium 2006–17 <http://tundra.csd.sc.edu/vllc/journal> (accessed 9 June 2018).

Sorensen, David R., and Brent E. Kinser, ‘Thomas Carlyle’, Oxford Bibliographies Online <http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com> (accessed 9 June 2018).

Tarr, Rodger L., ‘Carlyle’s Libraries at Chelsea and Ecclefechan’, Studies in Bibliography, 27 (1974), 249–66.

Tarr, Rodger L., ‘Carlyle’s The French Revolution: A Hitherto Unavailable Manuscript Fragment’, Carlyle Newsletter, 9 (1988), 33–6.

Tarr, Rodger L., Thomas Carlyle: A Descriptive Bibliography (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989).

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Historians on Carlyle’s French Revolution

Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lectures on the French Revolution, ed. John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1910).

Annan, Noel, ‘Historians Reconsidered: IX Carlyle’, History Today, 2 (1952), 659–65.

Aulard, François Victor Alphonse, ‘Carlyle historien de la Révolution française’, La Révolution française, 62 (1912), 193–205.

Ben-Israel, Hedva, ‘Carlyle and the French Revolution’, English Historians on the French Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968), 127–47.

Carr, E. H., What is History? (London: Macmillan, 1961).

Cobban, Alfred, Aspects of the French Revolution (New York: Braziller, 1968).

Cobban, Alfred, ‘Carlyle’s French Revolution’, History, 48 (1963), 306–16.

Geyl, Pieter, ‘Carlyle; His Significance and Reputation’, in Debates with Historians (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1955), 35–55.

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Hampson, Norman, Danton (London: Duckworth, 1978).

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Hampson, Norman, The Life and Opinions of Maximilian Robespierre (London: Duckworth, 1974).

Roberts, J. M., The French Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Rudé, George, The Crowd in the French Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972).

Sorensen, David R., ‘ “A Great Moral Tonic”: Lecky on Carlyle and The French Revolution’, Carlyle Studies Annual, 25 (2009), 213–44.

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Strachey, Lytton, ‘Four English Historians: IV.—Carlyle’, Nation, 42 (1928), 646–8.

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Trevelyan, G. M., ‘Carlyle as an Historian’, Nineteenth Century, 46 (1899), 493–503.

Carlyle’s French Revolution: History, Philosophy, and Religion

Abrams, M. H., Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature (New York: Norton, 1971).

Bloom, Harold, ‘Thomas Carlyle’, Essayists and Prophets (New York: Chelsea House, 2005), 82–96.

Dale, Peter Allan, The Victorian Critic and the Idea of History: Carlyle, Arnold and Pater (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977).

Edwards, Owen Dudley, ‘Carlyle and Catholicism, Part I: Hilaire Belloc and The French Revolution’, Carlyle Studies Annual, 23 (2007), 79–118.

Edwards, Owen Dudley, ‘Victorian Historical Consciousness—Carlyle, Macaulay, Froude, and Lecky: A Review Essay’, Carlyle Studies Annual, 29 (2013), 115–36.

Farrell, John, Revolution as Tragedy: The Dilemma of the Moderate from Scott to Arnold (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980).

Ferguson, William. ‘Carlyle as Historian’, The Carlyle Society Occasional Papers, 2 (Edinburgh, 1966), 1–15.

Fielding, Kenneth J., ‘ “Spiritual Optics?” or Carlyle’s Gospel: A Revised Version’, Literature and Belief, 25/1–2 (2005), 219–37.

Fielding, Kenneth J., ‘A Skeptical Elegy as in Auchtertool Kirkyard’, Literature and Belief, 25/1–2 (2005), 239–58.

Harrold, Charles Frederick, ‘Carlyle’s General Method in The French Revolution’, PMLA 43 (1928), 1150–69.

Holloway, John, The Victorian Sage: Studies in Argument (London: Archon, 1953).

Ikeler, A. Abbott, Puritan Temper and Transcendental Faith: Carlyle’s Literary Vision (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1972).

Jann, Rosemary, The Art and Science of Victorian History (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1985).

Lavalley, Albert J., Carlyle and the Idea of the Modern (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968).

Lea, Frank Alfred, ‘Carlyle and the French Revolution’, Adelphi, 18 (1941), 20–4, 36–8; repr. in D. J. Trela and Rodger L. Tarr (eds), The Critical Response to Thomas Carlyle’s Major Works (Westport: Greenwood, 1997), 70–8.

Melman, Billie, The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past, 1800–1953 (London: Oxford University Press, 2006).

Rigney, Anne, Imperfect Histories: The Elusive Past and the Legacy of Romantic Historicism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001).

Rigney, Anne, The Rhetoric of Historical Representation: Three Narrative Histories of the French Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

Rosenberg, John, Carlyle and the Burden of History (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985).

Rosenberg, Philip, The Seventh Hero: Thomas Carlyle and the Theory of Radical Activism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974).

Roy, G. Ross, ‘The French Reputation of Thomas Carlyle in the Nineteenth Century’, in Horst W. Drescher (ed.), Thomas Carlyle 1981: Papers Given at the International Thomas Carlyle Symposium (Frankfort am Main: Peter Lang, 1983), 297–330.

Sorensen, David R., ‘Carlyle’s Method of History in The French Revolution’, The Carlyle Society Occasional Papers, 9 (Edinburgh, 1982–3); repr. in D. J. Trela and Rodger L. Tarr (eds), The Critical Response to Thomas Carlyle’s Major Works (Westport: Greenwood, 1997), 79–90.

Taylor, Alan Carey, Carlyle: Sa première fortune littéraire en France, 1825–65 (Paris: Champion, 1929).

Toremans, Tom, and Tamara Gosta (eds), ‘Thomas Carlyle and the Totalitarian Temptation’, Studies in the Literary Imagination, 45 (2012).

Tucker, Herbert F., Epic: Britain’s Heroic Muse 1790–1910 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Vanden Bossche, Chris R., Carlyle and the Search for Authority (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991).

Wellek, René, ‘Carlyle and the Philosophy of History’, Philological Quarterly, 23 (1944), 55–65.

Wilson, A. N., God’s Funeral: A Biography of Faith and Doubt in Western Civilization (London: Murray, 1999).

Young, Louise, Thomas Carlyle and the Art of History (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1939).

Carlyle and Intellectual History

Arac, Jonathan, Commissioned Spirits: The Shaping of Social Motion in Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, and Hawthorne (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1979).

Brantlinger, Patrick, The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).

Buckett, Anna, ‘History as Verbal Construct: Strategies of Composition and Rhetoric in the Histories of the French Revolution by Carlyle, Scott, and Mignet’, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 9 (1984), 55–69.

Dinwiddy, John, ‘English Radicals and the French Revolution, 1800–1850’, in François Furet and Mona Ozouf (eds), The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture (Oxford: Pergamon, 1989), iii. 447–66.

Easson, Angus, ‘From Terror to Terror: Dickens, Carlyle, and Cannibalism’, in Alison Yarrington and Kelvin Everest (eds), Reflections of Revolution: Images of Romanticism (London: Routledge, 1993), 96–111.

Frye, Lowell, ‘ “Great Burke”, Thomas Carlyle, and the French Revolution’, in Lisa Plummer Crafton (ed.), The French Revolution Debate in English Literature and Culture (Westport: Greenwood, 1995), 83–106.

Furness, N. A., ‘Two Views of the French Revolution: Georg Buchner’s Dantons Tod and Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution: A History’, The Carlyle Society Papers, New Series—No. 1 (Edinburgh, 1988), 1–12.

Goldberg, Michael K., Dickens and Carlyle (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1972).

Hampson, Norman, Will and Circumstance: Montesquieu, Rousseau and the French Revolution (London: Duckworth, 1983).

Hill, Marylu, ‘Of Bricklayers and Kings: Burke, Carlyle, and the Defense of Monarchy’, in Paul E. Kerry and Marylu Hill (eds), Thomas Carlyle Resartus (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010), 85–105.

Hilles, Frederick W., ‘The Hero as Revolutionary: Godefroy Cavaignac’, in John Clubbe (ed.), Carlyle and his Contemporaries (Durham: Duke University Press, 1976), 74–90.

John, Brian, Supreme Fictions: Studies in the Work of William Blake, Thomas Carlyle, W. B. Yeats, and D. H. Lawrence (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1974).

Jones, Gareth Stedman, ‘The Redemptive Powers of Violence? Carlyle, Marx and Dickens’, in Colin Jones, Josephine McDonagh, and Jon Mee (eds), Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 41–63.

Levine, George, The Boundaries of Fiction: Carlyle, Macaulay, Newman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968).

Lloyd, Tom, ‘Madame Roland and Schiller’s Aesthetics: Carlyle’s The French Revolution’, Prose Studies, 9 (1986), 39–53.

Lewin, Michael, The Condition of England Question: Carlyle, Mill, Engels (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998).

Neff, Emery, Carlyle and Mill: An Introduction to Victorian Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, 1928).

Oddie, William, Dickens and Carlyle: The Question of Influence (London: Centenary Press, 1972).

Paroissien, David, ‘Dickens the Historian, Carlyle the Novelist, and Dickens, Carlyle and the French Revolution’, in Alexander Lyon Macfie (ed.), The Fiction of History (London: Routledge, 2014), 72–82.

Sorensen, David R., ‘A Soliloquy of Virtu: Carlyle, Rousseau and the French Revolution’, Carlyle Studies Annual, 19 (1999), 5–35.

Sorensen, David R., ‘Carlyle, Coleridge, and the History Question’, The Carlyle Society Papers, ns 3 (Edinburgh, 1990).

Sorensen, David R., ‘Carlyle, Knox, and the French Revolution’, The Carlyle Society Papers, ns 2 (Edinburgh, 1989).

Sorensen, David R., ‘ “The Unseen Heart of the Whole”: Carlyle, Dickens, and the Sources of The French Revolution and A Tale of Two Cities’, Dickens Quarterly, 30/1 (March, 2013), 5–25.

Timko, Michael, ‘Splendid Impressions and Picturesque Means: Dickens, Carlyle, and the French Revolution’, Dickens Studies Annual, 12 (1983), 177–95.

The French Revolution: Critical Studies

Barrow, Barbara, ‘Speaking the Social Body: Language-Origins and Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 19/1 (2014), 79–92.

Burrow, John, ‘From Carlylean Vulcanism to Sedimentary Gradualism’, in Stefan Collini, Richard Whatmore, and Brian Young (eds), History, Religion and Culture: British Intellectual History 1750–1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 198–223.

Clubbe, John, ‘Carlyle as Epic Historian’, in James R. Kincaid (ed.), Victorian Literature and Society (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1984), 119–45.

Clubbe, John, ‘Carlyle’s Subliminal Feminine: Maenadic Chaos in The French Revolution’, Carlyle Studies Annual, 16 (1996), 75–88.

Clubbe, John, ‘Epic Heroes in The French Revolution’, in H. W. Drescher (ed.), Thomas Carlyle 1981 (Frankfurt: Lang, 1983), 165–85.

Culviner, Thomas, ‘Heroes and Hero-Worship: Not so Simple in The French Revolution’, Victorians Institute Journal, 13 (1985), 83–96.

Cumming, Mark, A Disimprisoned Epic: Form and Vision in Carlyle’s French Revolution (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988).

Cumming, Mark, ‘Carlyle’s Seagreen Robespierre and the Perilous Delights of Picturesque History’, in Colin Haydon and William Doyle (eds), Robespierre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 177–93.

Cumming, Mark, ‘ “Such a Figure Drew Priam’s Curtains!”: Carlyle’s Epic History of the Revolution’, in James A. W. Heffernan (ed.), Representing the French Revolution (London and Hanover: University Press of New England, 1992), 63–80.

Daleski, H. M., ‘Imagining Revolution: The Eye of History and of Fiction’, Journal of Narrative Technique, 18 (1988), 61–72.

Desaulniers, Mary, Carlyle and the Economics of Terror (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995).

Foster, Norah, ‘ “Free of Formulas”: Innovation, Prophecy, and Truth in Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution’, Carlyle Studies Annual, 24 (2008), 101–15.

Jumeau, Alain, ‘Translating Carlyle’s French Revolution: A French Perspective’, in David R. Sorensen and Rodger L. Tarr (eds), The Carlyles at Home and Abroad (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), 77–82.

Kusch, Robert W., ‘The Eighteenth Century as “Decaying Organism” ’ in Carlyle’s The French Revolution”, Anglia, 89 (1971), 456–70.

Leicester, H. M., ‘The Dialectic of Romantic Historiography: Prospect and Retrospect in The French Revolution’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 456–70.

MacKay, Carol H., ‘The Rhetoric of Soliloquy in The French Revolution and A Tale of Two Cities’, Dickens Studies Annual, 12 (1983), 197–207.

Parker, Noël, ‘La Dynamique de l’histoire dans le style de The French Revolution de Thomas Carlyle’, in. L. Domergue and G. Lamoine (eds), Après 89 la révolution modèle ou repoussoir (Toulouse: Presse Universitaire du Mirail, 1991), 199–211.

Ryals, Clyde de L., ‘Carlyle’s The French Revolution: A True History’, in Clyde de L. Ryals (ed.), A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990), 17–33.

Carlyle’s French Revolution and the Historical Debate

Andress, David, The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2005).

Armenteros, Carolina, Tim Blanning, Isabel DiVanna, and Dawn Dodds (eds), Historicising the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 2008.

Aston, Nigel, Religion and Revolution in France, 1780–1804 (London: Macmillan, 2000).

Baker, Keith Michael, Inventing the French Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

Billington, James, Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1999).

Blanning, T. C. W., The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660–1789 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Blum, Carol, Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986).

Bordes, Philippe, Alain Chevalier, Claudette Hould, Annie Jourdan, Rolf Reichardt, and Stéphanie Roy (eds), La Révolution par la gravure (Vizelle: Musée de la Révolution française, 2002).

Brown, Howard G., Finding the French Revolution (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006).

Burleigh, Michael, Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the French Revolution to the Great War (London: Harper Collins, 2005).

Chartier, Roger, The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution, trans. Lydia G. Cochrane (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991).

Coste-Rooryck, Yolande, Le Paris Fou de Louis-Sébastien Mercier dans Le Tableau de Paris (1781–1789) et Le Nouveau Paris (1799) (Paris: Champion, 2009).

Crossley, Ceri, and Ian Small (eds), The French Revolution and British Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).

Darnton, Robert, The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History (New York: Norton, 1990).

Dauban, Charles Aimé, La Vérité sur Madame Roland, et sur les deux éditions de ses mémoires publiées simultanément, 2nd edn (Paris: Plon, 1864).

Davidson, Ian, The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny (London: Profile, 2016).

Farge, Arlette, Fragile Lives: Violence, Power and Solidarity in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993).

Fauchois, Yann, Religion et France révolutionnaire (Paris: Herscher, 1989).

Feher, Ferenc, The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990).

Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst, Paris as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-Century City (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994).

Furet, François, and Mona Ozouf (eds), A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989).

Furet, François, and Mona Ozouf, The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture, 4 vols (Oxford: Pergamon, 1989).

Germani, Ian, James A. Leith, and Robin Swales (eds), Symbols, Myths, and Images of the French Revolution (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1998).

Gutwirth, Madelyn, The Twilight of the Goddesses (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992).

Hampson, Norman, Prelude to Terror: The Constituent Assembly and the Failure of Consensus, 1789–1791 (Oxford, 1988).

Higonnet, Patrice, Goodness beyond Virtue: Jacobins during the French Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).

Hobsbawm, Eric, Echoes of the Marseillaise (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Israel, Jonathan, Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014).

Jordan, David P., The King’s Trial: Louis XVI vs the French Revolution (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004).

Kaplan, Steven Laurence, Farewell, Revolution: The Historian’s Feud: France, 1789–1989, 2 vols (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995).

Kates, Gary (ed.), The French Revolution: Recent Debate and New Controversies (London: Routledge, 2006).

Kennedy, Emmet, A Cultural History of the French Revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989).

Levitine, George (ed.), Culture and Revolution: Cultural Ramifications of the French Revolution (College Park: University of Maryland Department of Art History, 1989).

Lewis, Gwynne, The French Revolution: Rethinking the Debate (London: Routledge, 1993).

Linton, Marisa, Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

Lucas, Colin (ed.), Rewriting the French Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).

Martin, Jean Clément, Violence et Révolution (Paris: Seuil, 2006).

Mayer, Arno J., The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).

McClelland, J. S., The Crowd and the Mob: From Plato to Canetti (1989; repr. London: Routledge, 2010).

McPhee, Peter, Liberty or Death: The French Revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016).

Nora, Pierre, Rethinking France: Les Lieux de Mémoire, 2 vols (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).

Ozouf, Mona, De révolution en république: Les Chemins de la France (Paris: Gallimard, 2015).

Ozouf, Mona, Festivals and the French Revolution, trans. Alan Sheridan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988).

Schama, Simon, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (New York: Knopf, 1989).

Scurr, Ruth, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (London: Chatto and Windus, 2006).

Simmons, Clare A., Eyes across the Channel: French Revolutions, Party History and British Writing, 1830–32 (Amsterdam: Harwood, 2000).

Tackett, Timothy, When the King Took Flight (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003).

Tackett, Timothy, The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015).

Wahnich, Sophie, In Defence of Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution (London: Verso, 2012).