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Conference paper given at "John Thelwall at 250: Medicine, Literature, and Reform in London, ca. 1764-1834", at University of Notre Dame, London Global Gateway, on 25th July 2014
Just how prescient was Edmund Burke about the problems of modern democracy? Written for the bicentenary of his death in 1797, this book argues that he had a remarkable grasp of the shortcomings of the ideas promoted by the French... more
Trois textes sont regroupés ici, écrits entre 2005 et 2008 : Une présentation de l’historiographie autour de la violence en Révolution, qui avait été initialement destiné à ouvrir Violence et Révolution, paru au Seuil en 2006. Le bilan du... more
Paru dans Pages d’histoire. Autour de Michel Porret, sous la direction de Fabrice Brandli et Marco Cicchini, Genève, Georg, 2022, p. 159-174.
This review article discusses the nature of British radical reformers and their ideas in the revolutionary era in light of some recent scholarship. It assesses the relative impact of the American and French revolutions on British popular... more
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The production of imagined geographies is widely understood as a tool of colonial power. This paper, analyzing the writings of pro-revolutionary Italian patriots in the 1790s, argues that imagined geographies can also be used to subvert... more
Provincial folk history has, by and large, been neglected in historical analyses so that the academic study of Irish history has bolstered a metropolitan perspective of the past, which is mostly ignorant of subaltern vernacular... more
The outbreak of the French Revolution marked the beginning of a new era of international relations. The legacy of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism and the emergence of the new revolutionary principle of popular sovereignty forced politicians... more
"Global Burneys." July 26, 2017. Double panel at the BARS 2017 International Conference, King's Manor, York (July 26-30).
"Political Toasting in the Age of Revolutions: Britain, America and France, 1765-1800)", in Liberty, Property and Popular Politics: England and Scotland, 1688-1815. Essays in Honour of H. T. Dickinson, ed. Gordon Pentland & Michael Davis... more
Rémy Duthille, « Célébrer 1688 après 1789 : le discours de la Revolution Society et sa réception en France et en Angleterre », dans Lumières et histoire / Enlightenment and History, dir. Tristan Coignard, Peggy Davis et Alicia C. Montoya.... more
The essays collected in this volume demonstrate that during the age of revolution (1760s–1840s) most sectors of the maritime industries experienced higher levels of unrest than is usually recognized. Ranging across global contexts... more
L’ouvrage analyse le discours de John Cartwright, de Richard Price et d’autres radicaux anglais qui justifient les réformes politiques par les droits de l’homme et par la constitution anglaise. Leur position à la fois patriote et... more
Dr John Disney (1779-1857) was the benefactor of the first chair in archaeology at a British university. He also donated his major collection to the University of Cambridge. The sculptures continue to be displayed in the Fitzwilliam... more
This project repositions revolutionary translators not as passive collaborators of a predominantly French revolutionary culture but as activists seeking to spread and activate radical, democratic ideas into new contexts.
[Le bicentenaire des Considérations sur la Révolution française, publiées de manière posthume en 1818 par Germaine de Staël, invite à envisager aujourd’hui ce texte à l’aide de nouvelles perspectives scientifiques : non plus celle de la... more
Thomas Spence, a defender of women’s political and economic rights, was one of the very few pamphleteers who advocated women’s suffrage in his times. Nevertheless, he has been criticized by some historians for his patriarchal, even... more
«Une entreprise de médiatisation de littérature conservatrice en Grande-Bretagne : l’Association de la Couronne et de l’Ancre (1792-1793) », dans La Médiatisation du littéraire dans l'Europe des XVII et XVIIIe siècles, dir. Florence... more
The construction and distribution of books containing large copperplate images was of great importance to practitioners of natural history during the eighteenth century. This article examines the case of the botanist and president of the... more
Le sujet peut paraître ancien tant la Révolution française a donné lieu à des publications d'atlas et de cartes, notamment celle la série des Atlas de la Révolution française entreprise par les éditions de l'EHESS depuis 1989, sans... more
Following the execution of Louis XVI England was in the throes of the fear of revolution, and it became bad form or downright dangerous to laugh at the guillotine. The loyalists imposed a strict social ban on such behaviour, considering... more
« 1688-1789. Au carrefour des révolutions : les célébrations de la révolution anglaise de 1688 en Grande-Bretagne après 1789 », dans Du Bon Usage des commémorations : histoire, mémoire, identité, XVIe – XVIIIe siècles, dir. Bernard... more
Karantina deneyimi, tarihe gömüldüğüne herkesin çoktan ikna edildiği hikâyeleri şehir mekânında yeniden bir bir sahneye koyuyor. Gözünü hiper-gerçek bir dünya inşa etme hırsı bürümüş bir iktidar dünyanın devinimini bir fabrikanın çarkını... more
A richly detailed contextual introduction to Helen Maria William's Swiss tour in 1794, and to the travelogue that she published in 1798, with attention to the controversy surrounding her revolutionary activities and to the collaborative... more
The revolutionary wave of the 1790s subverted long-standing balances of power and forced European intellectuals to rethink the geopolitical arrangement of the continent. Analyzing the geographical imagination of pro-revolutionary Italian... more
An analysis of Richard Price's 1789 "Discourse on the Love of our Country" in the context of the sermon culture of Rational Dissent.
« Célébrer 1688 après 1789 : le discours de la Revolution Society et sa réception en France et en Angleterre », dans Lumières et histoire / Enlightenment and History, dir. Tristan Coignard, Peggy Davis et Alicia C. Montoya. Paris: Honoré... more
Rémy Duthille, « 1688-1789. Au carrefour des révolutions : les célébrations de la révolution anglaise de 1688 en Grande-Bretagne après 1789 », dans Du Bon Usage des commémorations : histoire, mémoire, identité, XVIe – XVIIIe siècles, dir.... more
« Célébrer 1688 après 1789 : le discours de la Revolution Society et sa réception en France et en Angleterre », dans Lumières et histoire / Enlightenment and History, dir. Tristan Coignard, Peggy Davis et Alicia C. Montoya. Paris: Honoré... more
This paper considers the work of Jacob Heinrich Meister, a Swiss protestant exile, director of a high-end literary periodical in Paris, and author of numerous political treatises between 1770 and 1820. His position brought him into... more
There is a tendency among literary scholars to confine presentations of armed women offered in British literature between 1793 and 1801 to a restrictive binary; the women are political, non-sentimental and condemned, or apolitical,... more