Letters from Revolutionary France - Softcover

Watkin Tench

9780708316917: Letters from Revolutionary France

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ISBN 10: 0708316913 ISBN 13: 9780708316917

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2001

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Watkin Tench’s 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 Tench’s 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.

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About the Author

Gavin Edwards is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Glamorgan. He is the editor ofGeorge Crabbe: Selected Poems (1991) and the author of George Crabbe’s 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.

Review

"An astute record of a critical phase in the French Revolution." -- Good Reading

"An easy read . . . an intriguing insight . . . a useful . . . source for eyewitness information on this period." -- Modern and Contemporary France

"An easy read, and provide an intriguing insight . . . a useful . . . source for eyewitness information on this period." -- Modern and Contemporary France

"Considerable scholarship and archival research have been developed to elucidate this text." -- Journal for Maritime Research

"Splendidly edited." -- BARS Bulletin and Review

"This volume is splendidly edited with full notes and references." -- British Association for Romantic Studies

"[A] fascinating book." -- International Journal of Maritime History