Jacques Mallet du Pan, Considérations sur la nature de la Révolution de France, et sur les causes qui en prolongent la durée, Londres et Bruxelles, 1793, p. V.
Clive Emsley, «The Impact of the French Revolution on British Politics and Society», in Ceri Crossley and Ian Small (ed.), The French Revolution and British Culture, Oxford, 1989, p. 33.
Voir par exemple Seamus Deane, The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, 1789-1832, Cambridge, Mass., 1988; Stephen Prickett, England and the French Revolution, Basingstoke, 1989 ; H.T. Dickinson, «The Impact of the French Revolution on Britain», Contemporary Review, 255, 1989, pp. 20-26.
« In England, even more than in France, the history of the French Revolution was being written before the story of it was completed ». Hedva Ben-Israel, English Historians on the French Revolution, Cambridge, 1968, p. 3.
Charles James Fox to Richard Fitzpatrick, 30 juillet 1789, in Memorials and Correspondence or Charles James Fox, ed. John Russell, 4 vols., Londres, 1853, II, p. 361.
Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville, 31 décembre 1790, cité in Georges Lefebvre, The French Revolution, 2 vols., Londres et New York, 1962, I, p. 217.
Conor Cruise O’Brien, «Nationalism and the French Revolution» , in Geoffrey Best (ed.), The Permanent Revolution: The French Revolution and its Legacy 1789-1989, Londres, 1988, pp. 36-37.
F.D. Cartwright (ed.), The Life and Correspondence of Major Cartwright, Londres, 1826, p. 182.
H.T. Dickinson, «Britain and the Ideological Crusade against the French Revolution» in L. Domergue et G. Lamoine (ed.), Après 89. La Révolution Modèle ou Repoussoir, Toulouse, 1992, p. 155.
J.G.A. Pocock, «Political Thought in the English-Speaking Atlantic, 1760-1790. Part 2: Empire, Revolution and the End of Early Modernity», in The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800, Cambridge, 1993, p. 308.
Milan Kundera, L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être, Paris, Gallimard, 1984 (trad. François Kérel), p. 323.
George Rudé, Revolutionary Europe, 1783-1815, Londres, 1964, p. 180.
N.C. Phillips, «Burke and Paine: The Conservative and Radical Minds», Landfall, 8 (1954), p. 36.
Voir par exemple : Robert R. Dozier, For King, Constitution and Country: The English Loyalists and the French Revolution, Lexington, 1983 ; J.C.D. Clark, English Society 1688-1832: Ideology, Social Structure and Political Practice during the Ancien Régime, Cambridge, 1985 ; H.T. Dickinson, «Popular Conservatism and Militant Loyalism 1789-1815», in H.T. Dickinson (ed.), Britain and the French Revolution 1789-1815, Basingstoke, 1989, pp. 104-25; Mark Philp, «Vulgar Conservatism, 1792-93», English Historical Review, 110 (1995), pp. 42-69.
M.O. Grenby, The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution, Cambridge, 2001, p. 4.
Cet article sera avant tout centré sur les principaux livres et articles publiés sur le radicalisme anglais lors des trente dernières années.
Philip Francis à Edmund Burke, 19 février 1790, in T.W. Copeland (ed.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, 10 vols., Cambridge, 1958-70, VI, p. 86.
Pour un survol de cette littérature, voir Gayle Trusdel Pendleton, «Towards a Bibliography of the Reflections and Rights of Man Controversy», Bulletin of Research in the Humanities, 85 (1982), pp. 65-103; Mark Philp, «Burke and Paine: texts in Context», Enlightenment and Dissent, 9 (1990), pp. 93-105.
Thomas Copeland, Our Eminent Friend Edmund Burke, New Haven, 1949, p. 148.
Alfred Cobban (ed.), The Debate on the French Revolution 1789-1800, Londres, 1950, p. 31.
Pour une discussion de la chronologie des réponses à Burke, voir : James T. Boulton, The Language of Politics in the Age of Wilkes and Burke, Londres et Toronto, 1963, pp. 265-271; R.R. Fennessy, Burke, Paine and the Rights of Man: A Difference of Political Opinion, The Hague, 1963, pp. 181-212.
Marilyn Butler (ed.), Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy, Cambridge, 1984.
Gregory Claeys (ed.), The French Revolution Debate in Britain: The Origins of Modern Politics, Basingstoke, 2006.
Iain Hampsher-Monk (ed.), The Impact of the French Revolution: Texts from Britain in the 1790s, Cambridge, 2005.
Gregory Claeys (ed.), Political Writings of the 1790s, 8 vols., Londres, 1995.
Horst Ihde, «The Heirs to Paine’s Democratic Tradition», in P.M. Kemp-Ashraf (ed.), Life and Literature of the Working Class: Essays in Honour of William Gallacher, Berlin, 1966, p. 93. Sur la réception britannique des Droits de l’Homme voir Edward Royle, «The Reception of Paine», Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History, 52 (1987), pp. 14-20.
Rights of Man a été publié chez Penguin Classics Series, édité par Eric Foner, Harmondsworth, 198; dans une version éditée par by Gregory Claeys, Indianapolis, 1992; et chez Dover Publications, ed. Michael Foot, Mineola, New York, 2000.
Thomas Paine Reader, ed. Michael Foot et Isaac Kramnick, Harmsondsworth, 1987; Thomas Paine: Political Writings, ed. Bruce Kuklick, Cambridge, 1989; Thomas Paine: Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings, ed. Mark Philp, Oxford, 1998; et Common Sense, Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine, ed. Jack Fruchtman et Sidney Hook, New York, 2003.
Une édition de The Age of Reason, édité par Philip S. Foner et pour la première fois publié en 1948, a été ressortie chez Citadel Press, New York, 1991. Une édition est aussi disponible chez Dover Publications, par Moncure Daniel Conway, Mineola, New York, 2004.
An Appreciation of Thomas Paine [CD-ROM]: Bank of Wisdom [1998]. Les principaux travaux inclus sur ce CD-ROM sont : Life and Writings of Thomas Paine, ed. Daniel Edwin Wheeler, 10 vols., New York, 1908; The Writings of Thomas Paine, ed. Moncure Daniel Conway, 4 vols., New York, 1894; The Life of Thomas Paine, ed. Moncure Daniel Conway, 2 vols., New York, 1892; The Life of Thomas Paine, ed. Peter Eckler, New York, 1893; John E. Remsburg, Thomas Paine, the Apostle of Religious and Political Liberty, Boston, 1880; and G. Vale, The Life of Thomas Paine, New York, 1840.
The State Trials on CD-ROM [CD-ROM], Jutastat [2001].
On trouve aussi sur le CD-ROM The State Trials New Series, ed. John Macdonell, 8 vols., Londres, 1888.
Papers of the London Corresponding Society [CD-ROM]: Microform Academic Publishers [n.d]. On trouve les Papers sur trois disques, qui sont constitués des British Library Additional Manuscripts suivants : 27,808; 27,811 - 27,815; 35,142 - 35,143.
Mary Thale (ed.), Selections from the Papers of the London Corresponding Society, Cambridge, 1983.
Michael T. Davis (ed.), London Corresponding Society, 6 vols., Londres, 2002.
Mary Thale (ed.), The Autobiography of Francis Place (1771-1854), Cambridge, 1972; «Memoir of Thomas Hardy» in David Vincent (ed.), Testaments of Radicalism: Memoirs of Working-Class Politicians 1790-1885, Londres, 1977, pp. 31-102.
E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, Harmondsworth, 1968 (1963), p. 162.
John Gale Jones, Sketch of a Political Tour through Rochester, Chatham, Maidstone, Gravesend, &c., ed. Philip MacDougall, Rochester, 1997.
Gregory Claeys (ed.), The Politics of English Jacobinism: Writings of John Thelwall, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1995.
On trouve dans ce recueil : des extraits du journal The Tribune, où beaucoup de ses conférences publiques étaient reproduites, ainsi que le texte intégral de The Natural and Constitutional Right of Britons (1795); Sober Reflections on the Seditious and Inflammatory Letter of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke (1796); et The Rights of Nature (1796).
H.T. Dickinson (ed.), The Political Works of Thomas Spence, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1982; Pig’s Meat: Selected Writings of Thomas Spence, Radical and Pioneer Land Reformer, Nottingham, 1982.
Michael Scrivener (ed.), Poetry and Reform: Periodical Verse from the English Democratic Press 1792-1824, Detroit, 1992.
John Barrell (ed.), Exhibition Extraordinary!! Radical Broadsides of the Mid 1790s, Nottingham, 2001.
David Bindman, The Shadow of the Guillotine: Britain and the French Revolution, Londres, 1989, en particulier les pages : 190-206.
The Prison Diary (16 May - 22 November 1794) of John Horne Tooke, ed. A.V. Beedell and A.D. Harvey, Leeds, 1995.
Michael T. Davis, Iain McCalman et Christina Parolin (ed.), Newgate in Revolution: An Anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution, Londres, 2005. On trouve en particulier dans ce recueil des textes de James Parkinson, James Lawrence, Thomas Lloyd, Sampson Perry et William Hodgson.
Robert Rix (ed.), «A Political Dictionary Explaining the True Meaning of Words’» by Charles Pigott, Aldershot, 2004.
Penelope J. Corfield et Chris Evans (ed.), Youth and Revolution in the 1790s, Stroud, 1996.
Le sermon fut publié sous le titre : A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1790). Il a été deux fois réédité dans des éditions modernes, l’une publiée par the National Library of Wales en 1989, et l’autre en 1992 chez Woodstock Books, dans la collection «Revolution and Romanticism».
The Correspondence of Richard Price, ed. W. Bernard Peach and D.O. Thomas, 3 vols., Durham, NJ and Cardiff, 1983-1994. Le volume 3 couvre la période 1786-1791.
Biographie de M. Wollstonecraft par son mari, W. Godwin, parue en 1798.
The Political and Philosophical Writings of William Godwin, ed. Pamela Clemit, Martin Fitzpatrick and Mark Philp, 7 vols., Londres, 1993; The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, ed. Janet Todd and Marlyn Butler, 7 vols., Londres, 1989. Il existe aussi The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin, ed. Pamela Clemit, Maurice Hindle and Mark Philp, 8 vols., Londres, 1992. Godwin’s Political Justice est disponible dans la collection de Woodstock Books «Revolution and Romanticism» ed. Jonathan Wordsworth, Oxford, 1992. W. Godwin, Memoirs of the author of the Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Londres, 1798, est disponible dans de nombreuses éditions, notamment : A Short Residence in Sweden, and Denmark. Mary Wollstonecraft; And Memoirs of the Author of the Rights of Woman. William Godwin, ed. Richard Holmes, Harmondsworth, 1987 ; Memoirs of Wollstonecraft, ed. Jonathan Wordsworth, Oxford, 1993; et Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, ed. Pamela Clemit et Gina Luria Walker, Peterborough, 2001. On trouve A Vindication of the Rights of Woman de M. Wollstonecraft dans de nombreuses éditions récentes : chez Penguin Classics, ed. Miriam Brody, Harmondsworth, 1982 ; chez Everyman Classics publié par Dent, ed. Mary Warnock, Londres, 1985 ; chez Norton Critical Edition, ed. Carol H. Poston, New York, 1988 ; enfin chez Cambridge University Press, ed. Sylvana Tomaselli, Cambridge, 1995.
P.A. Brown, The French Revolution in English History, 1918; rééd., Londres, 1965 ; G.S. Veitch, The Genesis of Parliamentary Reform, 1913; rééd., Londres, 1965.
The Making of the English Working Class a d’abord été publié en anglais en 1963. Il a fallu attendre 1988 pour avoir une traduction française, chez Gallimard-le Seuil.
Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins: Reformers in Late 18th Century England, New York, 1968; Gwyn A. Williams, Artisans and Sans-Culottes: Popular Movements in France and Britain during the French Revolution,1968; reprinted, Londres, 1989.
Albert Goodwin, The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution, Cambridge, Mass., 1979.
Voir J.C.D. Clark, The Language of Liberty 1660-1832: Political Discourse and Social Dynamics in the Anglo-American World, Cambridge, 1994.
H.T. Dickinson, British Radicalism and the French Revolution 1789-1815, Oxford, 1985; H.T. Dickinson, The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Londres, 1995.
Jennifer Mori, Britain in the Age of the French Revolution 1785-1820, Harlow, 2000 ; Michael J. Turner, British Politics in the Age of Reform, Manchester, 1999; Michael J. Turner, The Age of Unease: Government and Reform in Britain, 1782-1832, Stroud, 2000.
Britain and Revolutionary France: Conflict, Subversion and Propaganda, ed. Colin Jones, Exeter, 1983, en particulier les pages : 40-69.
J. Ann Hone, For the Cause of Truth: Radicalism in London 1796-1821, Oxford, 1982.
Ray Hemmings, Liberty or Death: Early Struggles for Parliamentary Democracy, Londres, 2000.
Jenny Graham, The Nation, the Law and the King: Reform Politics in England, 1789-1799, 2 vols., Lanham, Maryland, 2000.
Goodwin, The Friends of Liberty, op. cit., en particulier les pages : 136-170.
Edwin Jaggard, Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform, Woodbridge, 1999.
John Stevenson, Artisans and Democrats: Sheffield in the French Revolution, 1789-97, Londres, 1989. Sur la Sheffield SCI, voir F.K. Donnelly, «The Foundation of the Sheffield Society for Constitutional Information», Labour History Review, 56 (1991), pp. 51-53.
David V. Erdman, Commerce des Lumières: John Oswald and the British in Paris, 1790-1793, Columbia, 1986.
George Rudé, Protest and Punishment: The Story of the Social and Political Protesters Transported to Australia, 1788-1868, Oxford, 1978.
Richard J. Twomey, Jacobins and Jeffersonians: Anglo-American Radicalism in the United States, 1790-1820, New York, 1989; Richard J. Twomey, «Jacobins and Jeffersonians: Anglo-American Radical Ideology, 1790-1810», in Margaret C. Jacob and James R. Jacob (ed.), The Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism, New Jersey, 1984, pp. 313-328.
Michael Durey, Transatlantic Radicals and the Early American Republic, Kansas, 1997.
Whitney R.D. Jones, David Williams: The Anvil and the Hammer, Cardiff, 1986.
Pour une étude de qualité sur la pensée de Priestley, voir Jack Fruchtman, The Apocalyptic Politics of Richard Price and Joseph Priestley, Philadelphia, 1983.
Jenny Graham, Revolutionary in Exile: The Emigration of Joseph Priestley to America, 1794-1804, Philadelphia, 1995.
Joseph Priestley and Birmingham, ed. Malcolm Dick, Studley, 2005.
Robert E. Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1773 to 1804, University Park, Pennsylvania, 2004.
C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, 2 vols., Londres, 1876.
Ian Ward, «A Love of Justice: The Legal and Political Thought of William Godwin», The Journal of Legal History, 25 (2004), p. 1.
Mark Philp, Godwin’s Political Justice, Londres, 1986.
Don Locke, A Fantasy of Reason: The Life and Thought of William Godwin, Londres, 1980; Peter Marshall, William Godwin, New Haven, 1984.
William St Clair, The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family, Londres, 1989.
Gary Kelly, Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft, Basingstoke, 1992; Janet Todd, Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life, Londres, 2000; Diane Jacobs, Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, Londres, 2001; Claudia L. Johnson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft, Cambridge, 2002; Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination, Cambridge, 2003; Lyndal Gordon, Mary Wollstonecraft: A New Genius, Londres, 2005.
Helen Braithwaite, Romanticism, Publishing and Dissent: Joseph Johnson and the Cause of Liberty, Basingstoke, 2003.
Jack Fruchtman, Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom, New York, 1994; John Keane, Tom Paine: A Political Life, Londres, 1995; Trevor Griffiths, These Are The Times: A Life of Thomas Paine, Londres, 2004.
Sur l’ampleur des erreurs dans le livre de Keane, voir History, 81 (1996), pp. 228-237.
Kenneth Johnston, The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy, Londres et New York, 1998. C’est Michael Durey qui a le premier mis le doigt sur les erreurs de K. Johnson : « The Spy Who Never Was », Times Literary Supplement, 10 March 2000, pp. 14-15. Lorsque le livre de K. Johnson est ressorti en 2000, la référence à « l’espion » a été supprimée dans le sous-titre, en réponse aux critiques de M. Durey. Voir John Mullan, «Bumming and Booing», London Review of Books, 5 April 2001; et la lettre de K. Johnston à la London Review of Books, 24 mai 2001.
Voir Michael T. Davis, «“That Odious Class of Men Called Democrats”: Daniel Isaac Eaton and the Romantics, 1794-95», History, 84 (1999), pp. 74-92.
Nicholas Roe, Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years, Oxford, 1988.
Christina Bewley and David Bewley, Gentleman Radical: A Life of John Horne Tooke, Londres, 1998.
David Alexander, Richard Newton and English Caricature in the 1790s, Manchester, 1998.
Philip Harling, «Equipoise Regained? Recent Trends in British Political History, 1790-1867», The Journal of Modern History, 75 (2003), pp. 890-891.
Voir Mark Philp, «English Republicanism in the 1790s», The Journal of Political Philosophy, 6 (1998), pp. 235-262.
Voir Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Cambridge, Mass., 1976; Herbert Butterfield, George III, Lord North, and the People, 1779-1780, Londres, 1949; et Ian R. Christie, Myth and Reality in Late Eighteenth-Century British Politics, Londres, 1970.
Carla Hay, James Burgh, Spokesman of Reform in Hanoverian England, Washington, 1979, pp. 104-105.
Voir J.G.A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, Princeton, N.J., 1975. Voir aussi J.G.A. Pocock, Virtue, Commerce and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge, 1985.
Isaac Kramnick, Republicanism and Bourgeois Radicalism: Political Ideology in Late Eighteenth-Century England and America, Ithaca, N.Y., 1990; Isaac Kramnick, «Republican Revisionism Revisited», American Historical Review, 87 (1982), pp. 629-644.
Kramnick, Republicanism and Bourgeois Radicalism, op. cit., p. 4.
H. T. Dickinson, The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain, op. cit., p. 179.
Gregory Claeys, Thomas Paine: Social and Political Thought, Boston and Londres, 1989.
Michael Scrivener, Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall and Jacobin Writing, University Park, Pennsylvania, 2001.
Robert Hole, Pulpits, Politics and Public Order in England, 1760-1832, Cambridge, 1989.
Eileen Groth Lyon, Politicians in the Pulpit: Christian Radicalism in Britain from the Fall of the Bastille to the Disintegration of Chartism, Aldershot, 1999.
Stuart Andrews, Unitarian Radicalism: Political Rhetoric, 1770-1814, Basingstoke, 2003.
H.T. Dickinson, Liberty and Property: Political Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Londres, 1977, p. 1.
Pour une discussion de qualité sur ces questions, et sur l’impact des cultural studies sur l’histoire du radicalisme, voir : Alex Benchimol, «Remaking the Romantic Period: Cultural Materialism, Cultural Studies and the Radical Public Sphere», Textual Practice, 19 (2005), pp. 51-70.
Craig Calhoun, The Question of Class Struggle: Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism during the Industrial Revolution, Chicago, 1982.
Iain McCalman, Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840, Cambridge, 1988.
Cette notion d’« études plébéiennes » est empruntée à un compte rendu de Anne Janowitz in Studies in Romanticism, 32 (1993), pp. 297-303.
David Worrall, Radical Culture: Discourse, Resistance and Surveillance, 1790-1820, Hemel Hempstead, 1992; Jon Mee, Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Enthusiasm in the 1790s, Oxford, 1992.
Geoff Eley, «Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures: Placing Habermas in the Nineteenth Century», in Craig Calhoun (ed.), Habermas and the Public Sphere, , Cambridge, Mass., 1992, pp. 318-331; Terry Eagleton, The Function of Criticism, from the Spectator to Post-Structuralism, Londres, 1984; Jon Klancher, The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790-1832, Madison, 1987.
Kevin Gilmartin, Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England, Cambridge, 1996.
Id., p. 27.
Stuart Andrews, The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution, 1789-99, Basingstoke, 2000, en particulier les pages 124-137.
Paul Keen, The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere, Cambridge, 1999. Voir aussi Andrew McCann, Cultural Politics in the 1790s: Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere, Basingstoke, 1998.
Robert M. Maniquis (ed.), British Radical Culture of the 1790s, San Marino, 2002.
Marcus Wood, Radical Satire and Print Culture 1790-1822, Oxford, 1994.
H.T. Dickinson, Caricatures and the Constitution, 1760-1832, Cambridge, 1985; Tamara L. Hunt, Defining John Bull: Political Caricature and National Identity in Late Georgian England, Aldershot, 2003.
James Epstein, Radical Expression: Political Language, Ritual and Symbol in England, 1790-1850, New York, 1994; James Epstein, In Practice: Studies in the Language and Culture of Popular Politics in Modern Britain, Stanford, 2003.
Voir James Epstein et David Karr, «Playing at Revolution: British “Jacobin” Performance», Journal of Modern History (à paraître). Je remercie James Epstein de m’avoir donné une copie de cet article.
James Epstein, «“Our Real Constitution”: Trial Defence and Radical Memory in the Age of Revolution», in James Vernon (ed.), Re-Reading the Constitution: New Narratives in the Political History of England’s Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 22-51; James Epstein, «“Equality and No King”: Sociability and Sedition: The Case of John Frost», in Gillian Russell and Clara Tuite (ed.), Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain 1770-1840, Cambridge, 2002, pp. 43-61; John Barrell, «Coffee-House Politicians», Journal of British Studies, 43 (2004), pp. 206-232. Voir aussi John Barrell, «“An Entire Change of Performances?” The Politicisation of Theatre and the Theatricalisation of Politics in the Mid 1790s», Lume: Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 17 (1998), pp. 11-50.
J. Brewer et J. Styles, An Ungovernable People: The English and their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Londres, 1983; Ian Gilmour, Riot, Risings and Revolution: Governance and Violence in Eighteenth-Century England, Londres, Pimlico, 1992.
John Bohstedt, Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales 1790-1810, Cambridge, Mass., 1983.
J.M. Golby et A.W. Purdue, The Civilisation of the Crowd: Popular Culture in England 1750-1900, Stroud, 1999; George Rudé, The Crowd in History, Londres, 1964; Nicholas Rogers, Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain, Oxford, 1998.
Charles Tilly, Popular Contention in Great Britain 1758-1834, Cambridge, Mass., 1995.
Roger Wells, Wretched Faces: Famine in Wartime England 1793-1803, Gloucester, 1998.
Ian Gilmour, Riot, Risings and Revolution, Londres, Pimlico, 1992.
Ian R. Christie, Stress and Stability in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: Reflections on the British Avoidance of Revolution, Oxford, 1984.
Edward Royle, Revolutionary Britannia? Reflections on the Threat of Revolution in Britain 1789-1848, Manchester and New York, 2000, p. 10.
Voir Steve Poole, The Politics of Regicide in England, 1760-1850, Manchester et New York, 2000; Frank Prochaska, The Republic of Britain, 1760 to 2000, Londres, 2000, pp. 1-32; et Anthony Taylor, «Down With The Crown»: British Anti-Monarchism and Debates about Royalty since 1790, Londres, 1999.
Malcolm I. Thomis and Peter Holt, Threats of Revolution in Britain 1789-1848, Basingstoke, 1977.
I. McCalman, Radical Underworld.
Roger Wells, Insurrection: The British Experience 1795-1803, Gloucester, 1983.
Clive Emsley, «An Aspect of Pitt’s Terror: Prosecutions for Sedition during the 1790s», Social History, 6 (1981), pp. 155-184; Clive Emsley, «Repression, “Terror” and the Rule of Law during the Decade of the French Revolution», English Historical Review, 100 (1985), pp. 801-825; et Philip Harling, «The Law of Libel and the Limits of Repression, 1790-1832», The Historical Journal, 44 (2001), pp. 107-134.
Michael Lobban, «From Seditious Libel to Unlawful Assembly: Peterloo and the Changing Face of Political Crime c. 1770-1820», Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 10 (1990), pp. 307-352. Pour un débat sur la répression du commerce des livres, voir Donald Thomas, «Press Prosecutions of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Evidence of the Kings’ Bench Indictments», The Library, 32 (1977), pp. 315-332 ; John Feather, «The English Book Trade and the Law 1695-1799», Publishing History, 12 (1982), pp. 51-75 ; Alan Booth, «“The Memory of the Liberty of the Press”: The Suppression of Radical Writing in the 1790s», in Paul Hyland et Neill Sammells (ed.), Writing and Censorship in Britain, Londres, 1992, pp. 107-122 ; Jon Mee, «“Examples of Safe Printing”: Censorship and Popular Radical Literature in the 1790s», Essays and Studies, 46 (1993), 81-95 ; Ian Haywood, The Revolution in Popular Literature: Print, Politics and the People, 1790-1860, Cambridge, 2004, pp. 81-111.
Je suis actuellement engagé dans un projet sur les « procès politiques à l’ère de la contre-révolution : performance et discours », qui débouchera sur un livre.
Alan Wharam, The Treason Trials of 1794, Leicester, 1992.
John Barrell, Imagining the King’s Death. Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide 1793-1796, Oxford, 2000.
Epstein, «“Our Real Constitution”: Trial Defence and Radical Memory in the Age of Revolution»; Michael T. Davis, «“The Impartial Voice of Future Times Will Rejudge Your Verdict”: Discourse and Drama in the Trials of the Scottish Political Martyrs of the 1790s», in Joanne Paisana (ed.), Hélio Osvaldo Alves: O Guardador de Rios, Braga, 2005, pp. 65-78. Voir également Michael T. Davis, «“I Can Bear Punishment” : Daniel Isaac Eaton, Radical Culture and the Rule of Law, 1793-1812», Criminal Justice History, 18 (2003), pp. 89-106.