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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) The Debate about the French Revolution
Debate: The Debate about the French RevolutionThe publication of Richard Price’s sermon on “A Discourse on the Love of Our Country” in November 1789, in which he praised both the American and the French Revolutions, prompted Edmund Burke to write his critique of the French Revolution Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790. This began a debate about the nature of the French Revolution which continues to this day: was it a step towards individual liberty and constitutional government or towards chaos and tyranny? Burke’s critique was quickly replied to by supporters of the Revolution such as Thomas Paine (1791) and William Godwin (1793). Burke, in turn, returned to the topic in numerous other writings.
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17 Titles in this Group:
| authors and editors ↓ |
title |
pub. date |
| author: Mary Wollstonecraft |
A Vindication of the Rights of Men |
1790 |
| author: Mary Wollstonecraft |
An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution and the Effect it Has Produced in Europe |
1795 |
| author: Mary Wollstonecraft |
The Best of the OLL No. 33: Mary Wollstonecraft, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792) |
2013 |
| author: Joseph Priestley |
Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke |
1791 |
| author: Richard Price |
A Discourse on the Love of Our Country |
1789 |
| author: Thomas Paine, editor: Moncure Daniel Conway |
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Vol. II (1779-1792) |
1779 |
| author: Thomas Paine |
Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution (1791 ed.) |
1791 |
| author: Sir James Mackintosh, editor: Donald Winch |
Vindiciae Gallicae and Other Writings on the French Revolution |
1791 |
| author: Catharine Macaulay |
Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, on the Revolution in France |
1790 |
| author: Vicesimus Knox, author: Desiderius Erasmus |
The Works of Vicesimus Knox, vol. 5 (Personal Nobility, Spirit of Despotism, Antipolemus) |
1824 |
| author: Vicesimus Knox |
The Spirit of Despotism (1821 ed.) |
1795 |
| author: William Godwin |
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Vol. II. |
1793 |
| author: William Godwin |
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Vol. I. |
1793 |
| author: Friedrich von Gentz, translator: John Quincy Adams, editor: Peter Koslowski |
The Origins and Principles of the American Revolution, compared with the Origin and Principles of the French Revolution |
1800 |
| author: Edmund Burke, foreword: Francis Canavan |
Select Works of Edmund Burke, vol. 3 (Letters on a Regicide Peace) |
1795 |
| author: Edmund Burke, foreword: Francis Canavan |
Select Works of Edmund Burke, vol. 2 (Reflections on the Revolution in France) |
1790 |
| author: Edmund Burke, editor: Daniel E. Ritchie |
Further Reflections on the French Revolution |
1790 |
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