Welcome to “What You Must Know About the French Revolution: Literature / Les Must de la Révolution française: La littérature,” an interactive site for scholars of French revolutionary literature. What is your “must”? Read on for the latest insights into this fascinating field…
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What You Must Know About the French Revolution: Literature / Les Must de la Révolution française: La littérature 
Hi there
Please tell us more about the person(s) behind this blog. It looks as if it might get interesting here!
Thanx
Maria (a feminist student).
Dear Maria,
We are a group of professors from a variety of universities world-wide who are all working on the literature written during or shortly after the French Revolution (1789-1794). This website is an avant-coureur of a book in the works which will collect in English all of our writings (and others) and present to the Anglophone world a concise snapshot of the best works from this little-known corpus. The “best” works hold great interest for political history, the origins of nationalism, feminist thought, and English-French relations. Thanks for your interest!
Julia Douthwaite, editor
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