Representations of Revolution

An intellectually daring book that considers aesthetic and psychological response to the French revolution from artists and writers from the period.

Ronald Paulson is professor of English at John Hopkins University. He is both a major authority on Henry Fielding and one of the world's leading scholars of eighteenth-century literary and artistic culture. His recent books include "The Beautiful, Novel and Aesthetics and Heterodoxy "(!995) and "Don Quixote in The Aesthetics of Laughter" (1998).