Letters from Revolutionary France - Softcover

Watkin Tench

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0708316913 ISBN 13: 9780708316917

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2001

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. Tench was writing in the period between the fall of Robespierre and the massacre of invading emigres south if Quimper in June 1795, a tense period in which deep-seated conflicts over religion and language were fuelling counter-revotionary uprisings in rural Brittany. His account illustrates and analyzes the volatile relationship between languages (English, French, Breton) and socio-political codes (republican and monarchist, genteel and plebian, Catholic and anticlerical) during the French Revolution.

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Review

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

"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

About the Author

Watkin Tench was a British marine officer who is best known for publishing two books describing his experiences in the First Fleet, which established the first settlement in Australia in 1788. Gavin Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at the University South Wales. He Is the author of George Crabbe's Poetry on Border Land (1990) and Narrative Order 1789-1819: Life and Story in an Age of Revolution (2005).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0708316913
• ISBN 13: 9780708316917
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186