1. Annual of French Studies 2016. Т. 49: The Popular Insurrections in the Age of the French Revolution and the First Empire (2016)
2. Still in the shadow of Burke and Dickens? The recent British historiography of the French Revolution

Still in the shadow of Burke and Dickens? The recent British historiography of the French Revolution

Doyle William

   The author reviews the evolution of British historiography of the French Revolution during 25 years passed after the 200th anniversary of this event. Assessing the achievements of his compatriots in this field of historical research, he highlights such specific feature of British researchers as a commitment to empiricism. In contrast to the American and French colleagues, the British were much less susceptible to modish trends in historiography brought to life by the «the linguistic turn». For a British historian it is still more important to know how it happened in the past, rather than what contemporaries thought about it.

Keywords: historiography, the United Kingdom, the French Revolution, empiricism.

Link: Doyle W. Still in the shadow of Burke and Dickens? The recent British historiography of the French Revolution // Annual of French Studies 2016. Т. 49: The Popular Insurrections in the Age of the French Revolution and the First Empire.М. P. 231-243.