Preface and Acknowledgements

A Note on the Texts

Introduction

1. Richard Price, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country

2. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on
the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London relative to That
Event

3. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a
Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

4. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr.
Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

5. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman:
with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

6. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining
Principle and Practice

7. William Godwin, An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and
Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

8. William Godwin, Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and Its
Influence on Morals and Happiness

Further Reading

Index

"This anthology is perfectly pitched to help students understand
the ideas and debates that underpin literary Romanticism. The
introduction is excellent and the headnotes and footnotes make the
texts themselves far more accessible. This is a hugely useful text
for any Romantic Period module."

--Sharon Ruston, University of Salford

"Jon Mee and David Fallon's Romanticism and Revolution: A
Reader is destined to become the first choice for those seeking
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Romanticism. This work-given the care of its preparation, the
concision of its informative introductions, and the greater depth
of its entries-will delight students and teachers and should
supplant past anthologies in classrooms at every level of
instruction."

-Mark Lussier, Arizona State University

"Romanticism and Revolution offers a representative
anthology of immediate British reactions to the epoch-making events
taking place in late eighteenth-century France. Reflections on the
Revolution meant debate over the Rights of Man - and Woman - as
well as on the nature of Government, patriotism, social and
political justice. This careful selection of passages from the most
important texts allows modern readers to see the intense
contemporary debate unfold, to consider the arguments and to trace
the dialogues between different writers. Key players in the great
Revolutionary Debate come alive for a modern readership through
these memorable passages of highly distinctive prose and are set in
context by the other extracts as well as through judicious
editorial introductions and notes. Anyone keen to develop a real
understanding of the political climate of the early 1790s will find
this volume indispensable."

--Fiona Stafford, Somerville College, University of
Oxford

"An indispensable volume - in every way a worthy successor
to Marilyn Butler's Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution
Controversy. In Romanticism and Revolution, Mee and
Fallon provide intelligent, representative, wide-ranging selections
from Price, Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, and Godwin for a new
generation of students and scholars. Due not least to the
generosity of their selections, Mee and Fallon revitalize our
understanding of - to name but a few contexts - Price's
politics of Rational Dissent, Burke's affective rhetoric of the
sentiments, both Wollstonecraft's attack on Burkean theatricality
and her arguments for female education, Paine's levelling of
political language, and Godwin's ideals of political utility and
disinterestedness. As Mee and Fallon note, the Revolution
controversy was a political battle fought with literary weapons:
Romanticism and Revolution illuminates this vital
affiliation throughout, emphasizing as it does the indissoluble
links between the rhetoric of political argument and the politics
of literary forms and strategies. Romanticism and Revolution
forcefully reminds us of the centrality of the Revolution
controversy both for the writers of the 1790s, writing as they were
under the pressure of events at home and abroad, and for critics of
Romanticism ever since, trying to make sense of the incontestable
though often unwieldy connections between Romanticism and
Revolution. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the
heady mix of politics and literature that continues to constitute
Romanticism."

--Charles W Mahoney, University of Connecticut

Jon Mee is Professor of Romanticism Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He has also taught at the Australian National University, the University of Delhi, the University of Chicago and the University of Oxford.



David Fallon is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at St Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK. He is currently writing a book on William Blake, Myth, and Enlightenment.

J. Mee, University of Warwick, UK; D. Fallon, St Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK