The Redemptive Power of Violence? Carlyle, Marx and Dickens
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4493351 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Georgeanna S Jones (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbm072 |
| OpenAlex | W2049904001 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 8 |
Among the many questions raised by the French Revolution of 1789, one in particular haunted the imagination of the nineteenth century: its violence. No one could deny that the revolution of 1789 had produced momentous and lasting changes. The Europe of the Ancien Regime had been destroyed and all attempts to restore it had foundered. But these changes appeared to be inseparable from the violence which had brought them about. Violence, it seemed, had not been incidental to the revolution, but inherent in its popular character. Popular sovereignty had gone together with crowd coercion and a reign of terror. Hunger, long-held grievances and the provocations of the Old Order were among its precipitants. But by any measure it had been excessive, and its legacy had been an unforgettable cluster of images of the burning of chateaux, of the destruction of the Bastille, of angry crowds, summary justice and the lanterne, of the execution of a king and queen, and of most of the leaders of the revolution itself, of the Terror and the guillotine, of women with the ferocity of 'tigers' -the tricoteuses, of revolutionary armies, of the desecration of churches and the noyades of Carrier. (After the suppression of the rebellion in the Vendee, Jean-Baptiste Carrier, the revolutionary commissioner stationed at Nantes, dealt with the 6,000 suspects and prisoners by heaping them on barges which were steered into the middle of the river and sunk. Between November 1793 and February 1794 it is estimated that 3,500 were murdered in this way.)
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2021 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |