Vindici Gallic: Defence of the French Revolution: A Critical Edition [Hardcover]

This new edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindici? Gallic? and an appendix which includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindici? Gallic? in the late summer of 1791.Introduction The publication of James Mackintosh's Vindici? Gallic? (1791) The Scottish underpinning of Vindici? Gallic? Mackintosh's 'philosophical' history of the French Revolution The defence of the National Assembly The violence of the French Revolution The defence of the new French Constitution of 1791 The defence of the principles of 1688 Mackintosh's revision of Vindici? Gallic? Note on the Text Selected Reading Vindici? Gallic? AppendixEDMUND GARRATT was educated at the University of Sussex and at Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests lie in Eighteenth-century Literature and History. He has published essays on James Mackintosh, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Lamb. He currently lives and works in Cambridgeshire.