French Emigration to Great Britain in Response to the French Revolution

Focuses on the interaction between French migrants and their British hosts following the French Revolution
Utilises a range of both traditional and innovative sources to recreate French and British encounters
Examines the situations, individuals and locations that were fundamental to emigrant-British cultural transfers

Focuses on the interaction between French migrants and their British hosts following the French Revolution Utilises a range of both traditional and innovative sources to recreate French and British encounters Examines the situations, individuals and locations that were fundamental to emigrant-British cultural transfers Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Auteur
Juliette Reboul is Postdoctoral Researcher at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her research interests lie in material and immaterial transfers and connections in Enlightenment Europe. She currently works on two digital humanities projects examining the dissemination of books and ideas in Europe: the ERC-funded MEDIATE, and Western Sydney's FBTEE.

Contenu

1. Introduction.- 2. Émigrés, Refugees and Emigrants.- 3. Britain and Britons in Emigrant Retrospective Self-Narratives.- 4. Discursive Constructions of the Emigrant Figure in Loyalist Britain.- 5. British Charities and the Émigré Ideological Pursuit of Social Inequality.- 6. Marketing the Trauma of Displacement in Classified Adverts.- 7. Speaking, Reading and Publishing as a French Emigrant in a British Context.- 8. Settling preoccupations and investment of the host territory.- 9. The disenchantment of the emigrant world.- 10. Conclusion.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.