Review. Intertextual War: Edmund Burke and the French Revolution in the Writing of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, and James Mackintosh. Blakemore, Steven

1999 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-338
Author(s):  
W. DOYLE
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
Thomas Paine ◽  
The French Revolution

The French Revolution Controversy

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-120
Author(s):  
Susan Marks
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
The Political ◽  
Thomas Paine ◽  
The French Revolution ◽  
The Revolution

The rights of man ‘arrived’ in England, in the sense of beginning to circulate in public discourse and becoming a topic on which people staked out positions, during the final decade of the eighteenth century. The context was debate over the significance of the French Revolution for England (the ‘Revolution controversy’). This chapter initiates discussion of the contested meaning of the rights of man in that debate, examining contributions by Richard Price, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine. A vision of the rights of man emerges as the rights of the living to control the political community of which those latter are a part.

scholarly journals From Paine to PlayStation

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 44-57
Author(s):  
Andrey Mintchev
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Thomas Paine ◽  
Invaluable Tool ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cinematic Experience ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
The French Revolution

In Assassin’s Creed Unity, the historical narratives of Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Alexis de Tocqueville, François Furet, and Peter McPhee are presented in a way that capitalizes on the virtual and tangible characteristics of gaming. By isolating the historical accounts of the French Revolution, Ubisoft Entertainment has created a stimulating and cinematic experience that challenges the unwavering pedagogy of French historiography. Due to the nature of videogames, Assassin’s Creed Unity serves as a gateway to understanding the French Revolution through the immersive qualities of simulation. The game safely navigates around the historicity of the event by recreating the vibrant landscapes of Paris and filling its streets with believable characters, models, player-driven decisions, and a historically-rich narrative. To this effect, Assassin’s Creed Unity inevitably collides with the opinions of several historians in a way that passively educates its audience on the overall history of 1790's France—making the game an invaluable tool for learning about the French Revolution. 

Brahmins and carnivores: the Irish historian in Great Britain

1987 ◽  
Vol 25 (99) ◽  
pp. 225-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. Boyce
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
Thomas Paine ◽  
Irish Studies ◽  
Irish History ◽  
Irish Immigrants ◽  
Hereditary Factors ◽  
The French Revolution

This paper is concerned with the teaching of Irish history in Great Britain, with the students, the teachers and their subject. Each merits a brief mention before any detailed discussion, in order to draw attention to the problems that exist, and to clear up any misunderstanding or ignorance about the task that is to be performed.In the great controversy between Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine occasioned by the French Revolution, Paine made at least one telling remark in his refutation of Burke’s defence of tradition and usage: he declared that an hereditary monarch was about as sensible as an hereditary mathematician. An hereditary Irish studies student in Great Britain makes about as much sense as both. Much nonsense is talked about the inherited genes of the Irish in Britain, on the assumption that (somehow) an interest in, and ability to comprehend, Irish studies can be transmitted from one generation of Irish immigrants to another. This may be the case; but if it is, it probably takes its rise from social rather than hereditary factors; and it is no more likely to produce an intelligent, perceptive student of Ireland than of France.

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