Mme de Staël and Political Liberalism in France

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Invention of the Political Center as an Ideal: Staël and the Constitutional Monarchy (1789–1795)

Chapter 3 Sentiment in Staëlian Political Liberalism: Letters on the Works and Character of J.-J. Rousseau

Chapter 4 Staël’s Liberal Republicanism in Reaction to the Discourse on Social Dissolution (1795–1799)

Chapter 5 The Role of Civility in Staëlian Political Liberalism

Chapter 6 A Liberal Interpretation of the French Revolution: Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution

Chapter 7 Reception of Considerations: The Hereditary Second Chamber

Chapter 8 Guizot’s and Rémusat’s Reactions to Considerations in 1818

Chapter 9 Barante’s Moment: The Advent of Communal Liberalism in 1829

Chapter 10 Tocqueville and Communal Liberalism (1830–1851)

Chapter 11 Democratizing Communal Liberalism Under the Second Empire

Chapter 12 The Reception of Considerations: Left-Wing Historians’ Refutation in the 1820s

Chapter 14 A Constitutional Historiography of the French Revolution After 1848

Chapter 15 Britain in the Liberal Historiography of the French Revolution: Tocqueville and Quinet in Regard to Considerations

Chapter 16 Conclusion