Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Synopsis The French Revolution was one of the most extraordinary political and social experiments in European history. This subject studies the course of the revolution and the subsequent attempts, between 1795 and 1815, to resolve the issues it raised. Special attention will be given to popular protest and its causes, to the significance of religious conflict, to the relationship between Paris and the provinces, to women's role in the revolution and to the social and economic background of political divisions. Particular attention will be given in tutorials to the long-term legacy of the revolution in the fields of ideology and culture, with regard to such topics as the left wing/right wing dichotomy, Jacobinism, Republicanism, Bonapartism and the major French writers' attitudes towards the revolution and Napoleon.
Assessment Class paper: 30% + Research essay (4000 words): 70%