Synopses & Reviews
James Mackintosh's Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791) was a brilliant reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and Charles-Alexandre de Calonne's De l'état de la France. Whig Opposition leader Charles James Fox rated it as the finest defence of the French Revolution. This edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindiciæ Gallicæ and an appendix that includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindiciæ Gallicæ in the late summer of 1791.
Synopsis
This new edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindiciae Gallicae and an appendix which includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindiciae Gallicae in the late summer of 1791.
Synopsis
James Mackintosh's Vindiciae Gallicae (1791) was a brilliant reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and Charles-Alexandre de Calonne's De l'etat de la France. Whig Opposition leader Charles James Fox rated it as the finest defence of the French Revolution. This edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindiciae Gallicae and an appendix that includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindiciae Gallicae in the late summer of 1791.
Synopsis
This volume presents the fully annotated text of James Mackintosh's Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791), with an extensive editor's introduction, and an appendix that includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindiciæ Gallicæ in the late summer of 1791.
About the Author
EDMUND GARRATT was educated at the University of Sussex and at Darwin College, University of Cambridge. His research interests lie in Eighteenth-century Literature and History. He has published essays on James Mackintosh, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Lamb. He currently lives and works in Cambridgeshire.
Table of Contents
Introduction * The publication of James Mackintosh's
Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791) * The Scottish underpinning of Vindiciæ Gallicæ * Mackintosh's 'philosophical' history of the French Revolution * The defence of the National Assembly * The violence of the French Revolution * The defence of the new French Constitution of 1791 * The defence of the principles of 1688 * Mackintosh's revision of
Vindiciæ Gallicæ * Note on the Text * Selected Reading *
Vindiciæ Gallicæ * Appendix