Publisher's Synopsis
This volume of essays by British and North American academics is an examination of British responses to the French Revolution and of the ways in which the idea of the Revolution was mediated in British culture. The text's controlling idea is that the manner in which the culture of one country appropriates the culture of another is complex and is a process which develops over time. For the modern historian, what is significant is the variety of ways in which British culture represented the French Revolution and assigned meanings to it.
