Synopses & Reviews
Watkin Tenchs letters (from Quimper and from the French ships le Marat and le Normandie in Brest harbour) give a powerful sense of a country caught up in a process of rapid and unpredictable change at a time when counter-revolutionary uprisings in rural Brittany were being fuelled by differences in religion and language.
This fully-annotated edition includes an introduction placing Tenchs work in its historical, literary and cultural contexts. It will appeal not only to students and scholars of history and literature, but to all those interested in the French Revolution as well as in military and maritime history at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Synopsis
This work presents an annotated version of the letters of Major Watkin Tench, who was held on parole in the town of Quimper in Brittany between 1794-1795. His account illustrates and analyzes the volatile relationship between languages and socio-political codes during the French Revolution.
About the Author
Gavin Edwards is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Glamorgan. He is the editor of George Crabbe: Selected Poems (1991) and the author of George Crabbes Poetry on Border Land (1990) in addition to many articles and essays on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British writing, eighteenth-century travel writing, and theories of narrative.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsList of PlatesA Note on the TextChronologyIntroductionNotes to the Introduction The 12 Letters Notes to LettersAppendix I: Charles Pougens's 'Translator's Note' to
Relation d'une expédition à la Baye Botanique Appendix II: A Letter from Rear-Admiral Bligh to the Admirality, November 23, 1794 Appendix III: Review by Marry Wollstonecraft in the
Analytical Review of Tench's
Letters Written in France Notes to AppendicesBibliographyIndex