Suggested Reading
See Also
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H Dickinson, The Politics of the people in 18th century Britain
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H Dickinson, British Radicalism and the French Revolution
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H Dickinson, Britain and the French Revolution
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A Goodwin, Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement
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- M. Philp, Reforming Ideas in Britain: Politics and Language in the Shadow of the French Revolution
- Gerold Sedlmayr, 'The Fatal Contagiousness of French Republicanism : Edmund Burke and the Body Politic', in Dirk Wiemann and Gaby Mahlberg (eds), Perspectives on English revolutionary republicanism
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T Schofield, ‘Conservative political thought in Britain in response to the French revolution’,
Historical Journal, 1986
- W. A. Speck, A Political Biography of Thomas Paine
- E P Thompson, Making of the English working class
Questions
- How and why do Burke and Paine differ in their reactions to the French Revolution
- Why was popular conservatism more successful than radicalism in the period?
- How do both writers view/imagine France in this period?
- What are the contributions of Burke and Paine to the development of political ideologies?
