Reader in History, Kingston University.
Overview
Marisa Linton is a Reader in History at Kingston University. She has published extensively on the politics and political culture of eighteenth-century France and the French Revolution. Her book, 'The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France' (Palgrave, 2001) examines one of the most significant ideas in eighteenth-century politics.
Her other publications include studies of: Robespierre's political ideas; Saint-Just; Jacobin ideology; the politics of Jacobin friendships; women and the politics of virtue; conspiracy in the French Revolution; the politics of kingship; and the intellectual origins of the French Revolution.
She is currently working on a major study of the Jacobins during "The Terror" which explores the relationship between political ideas and practice. She is able to comment on a wide range of topics in seventeenth and eighteenth-century French and English history, including the French Revolution, gender and the role of women, political ideas, radical and revolutionary thought, and The Enlightenment.
http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/faculty/staff/cv.php?staffnum=116
Research
Book:
The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France (Palgrave Press,2001).
Edited Book
Conspiracy in the French Revolution (University of Manchester Press, 2007). Co-editor with Professor Thomas Kaiser at the University of Arkansas and Professor Peter Campbell at the University of Versailles.
Articles in Refereed Journals
'The Man of Virtue: The Role of Antiquity in the Political Trajectory of L. A. Saint-Just', French History, 24, 3 (2010): pp. 393-419; 14,942 words.
'Fatal Friendships: The Politics of Jacobin Friendship', French Historical Studies, 31, 1 (Winter 2008): pp. 51-76; 12,730 words.
'Virtue Rewarded? Women and the Politics of Virtue in Eighteenth-Century France', part I, History of European Ideas, 26, 1 (2000), pp. 35-49; 8,600 words.
'Virtue Rewarded? Women and the Politics of Virtue in Eighteenth-Century France', part II, History of European Ideas, 26, 1 (2000), pp. 51-65; 8,100 words.
'The Unvirtuous King? Clerical Rhetoric on the French Monarchy, 1760 - 1774', History of European Ideas, 25, 1-2 (1999), pp. 55-74; 11,560 words.
'The Rhetoric of Virtue and the Parlements, 1770-1775', French History, 9, 2 (June 1995), pp. 180-201; 8,000 words.
'Les Femmes et la Commune de Paris de 1871', Revue Historique, CCXCVIII, 1 (July, 1997), pp. 23-46; 9,700 words. ISBN 2 13 048536 7
Chapters in Books
'Do You Believe That We're Conspirators?' Conspiracies Real and Imagined in Jacobin Politics, 1793-94', in Peter R. Campbell, Thomas E. Kaiser and Marisa Linton (eds), Conspiracy in the French Revolution (Manchester University Press, 2007), pp. 127-49.
'The Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution', in Peter Robert Campbell (ed.), The Origins of the French Revolution (Palgrave, 2005), pp. 139-59.
'The Tartuffes of Patriotism': Fears of Conspiracy in the Political Language of Revolutionary Government, France 1793-94' in Barry Coward and Julian Swann (eds), Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theory in Early Modern Europe: From the Waldensians to the French Revolution (Ashgate, 2004), pp. 235-54. 7,400 words.
'Ideas of the Future in the French Revolution' in Malcolm Crook, William Doyle and Alan Forrest (eds), Enlightenment and Revolution: Essays in Honour of Norman Hampson (Ashgate, 2004), pp. 153-168; 7,200 words.
'Robespierre's Political Principles', in C. Haydon and W. Doyle (eds), Robespierre (Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 37-53; 7,500 words.
'Citizenship and Religious Toleration in France', in Ole Peter Grell and Roy Porter (eds), Toleration in Enlightenment Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 157-74; 7,592 words.
Areas of expertise