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Romanticism
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Introduction: English
Romanticism and the
French Revolution
books and
thousands
of articles
on the
French
Inmany
thishundreds
year ofof 1989,
two
hundred
years
after
the fall of the Bastille,
Revolution are being published. Few of them assume that the French
Revolution is a thing of the past. Even those historians who insist that
the Revolution is or should be "finie" are minority voices in a crowd of
fascinated scholars, artists, journalists, politicians, and readers.
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INTRODUCTION
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several paths not yet fully explored. Though we are never to be fini
with the French Revolution and romanticism, we are not obliged alw
to pursue the same old ghosts.
It has been a pleasure to collaborate with the authors and review
who agreed to participate in this special issue, which of course wou
never have appeared without the imagination and hard work of Da
Wagenknecht and Deborah Swedberg. They have been constantly kin
and unusually patient with me, their sometimes tardy guest editor
this bustling bicentennial year. To them I extend my deepest gratit
Robert M. Maniquis
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