Dr Marisa Linton
| Position: | Reader in History |
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| School: | School Of Economics, History And Politics |
| Email: | M.Linton@kingston.ac.uk |
| Extension: | 62279 |
| Location: | Room Pr-H37, Penrhyn Road |
Profile
I am Reader in History at Kingston University. I have published extensively on the French Revolution and eighteenth-century French politics and political culture. My first book, 'The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France' (Palgrave, 2001) examined one of the most significant ideas in eighteenth-century political thought. My most recent book, 'Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship and Authenticity in the French Revolution' is a major study of the politics of Jacobinism. It will be published by Oxford University Press in 2013. Other publications include studies of: Robespierre's political ideas; antiquity and self-fashioning in revolutionary politics - the example of Saint-Just; 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. I am currently working on a further book for Oxford University Press on the Leaders of the French Revolution during the Year Two, the year of the Terror. I am able to offer research supervision 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.
Educational and professional qualifications
| 1993 | PhD in History , University of Sussex |
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| 1989 | MA in History , University of Sussex |
| 1988 | BA in Historical Studies , Middlesex Polytechnic |
Professional experience (post-1990)
| 1997 - present | Senior Lecturer, Kingston University |
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| 1994 -1997 | Lecturer, Kingston University |
| 1993 | Lecturer, University of Portsmouth |
Research supervision
January 2006 onwards, Director of Studies for a PhD thesis on 'The Politics of the duc d’Orléans'.
October 2009 External Examiner for a PhD thesis at Royal Holloway, University of London, on ‘The Cultural Significance of the Fête de l’être supreme, June 1794’.
July 2006 External Examiner for a PhD thesis at University College London on 'The Problem of the Enlightenment Salon'
Funding
| AHRB: Follow on leave for research on 'Virtuous Terror: Conspiracy and Friendship in the French Revolution, February-July 2005 Result: Total of £14,000 |
| British Academy Funding: Conference on 'Ideology and Politics' which I organised for the University of Sussex, April 1996 Result: Total of £800 |
| British Academy Funding (Arts and Humanities Research Board): Research Leave for Semester II, Feb-July 1999 Result: Total of £9,906 |
| British Academy Small Grant: research on 'Conspiracy and Friendship' in France, March - June 2002 Result: Total of £4,300 |
Professional activity
2012 -6 External Examiner for the History Department at Keele University
May 2007 External Validator for a BA Hons in Social and Cultural History at Greenwich University
Reader for book manuscripts submitted to Oxford University Press, Manchester University Press, Yale University Press, Blackwell, Pluto Press and Palgrave Press; and for prospective articles for journals, including: Eighteenth-Century Studies; The Historical Journal; French History; French Historical Studies; Intellectual History Review, Rethinking History; Modern and Contemporary France; and the European Review of History.
Research outputs
Article
Linton, Marisa (2011) Book Review of: "The terror of natural right: Republicanism, the cult of nature, and the French Revolution" by Dan Edelstein. American Historical Review, 116(2), pp. 403-406. ISSN (print) 0002-8762
Linton, Marisa (2010) The man of virtue: the role of antiquity in the political trajectory of L.A. Saint-Just. French History, 24(3), pp. 393-419. ISSN (print) 0269-1191
Linton, Marisa (2008) Fatal friendships: the politics of Jacobin friendship. French Historical Studies, 31(1), pp. 51-76. ISSN (print) 0016-1071
Linton, Marisa (2006) Robespierre and the Terror. History Today, 56(8), pp. 23-29. ISSN (print) 0018-2753
Linton, Marisa (2003) Review article: recent books on the French Revolution. History, 88(289), pp. 74-80. ISSN (print) 0018-2648
Linton, Marisa (2000) Virtue Rewarded? Women and the politics of virtue in Eighteenth-Century France. Part 2. History of European Ideas, 26(1), pp. 51-65. ISSN (print) 0191-6599
Linton, Marisa (2000) Virtue Rewarded? Women and the politics of virtue in Eighteenth-Century France. Part I. History of European Ideas, 26(1), pp. 35-49. ISSN (print) 0191-6599
Linton, Marisa (1999) The unvirtuous king?: clerical rhetoric on the French monarchy, 1760-1774. History of European Ideas, 25(1-2), pp. 55-74. ISSN (print) 0191-6599
Linton, Marisa A (1997) Les femmes et la commune de Paris de 1871. Revue Historique, CCXCVIII (298)(1), pp. 23-47. ISSN (print) 0035-3264
Linton, Marisa (1995) The rhetoric of virtue and the Parlements, 1770-1775. French History, 9(2), pp. 180-201. ISSN (print) 0269-1191
Book
Campbell, Peter R. , Kaiser, Thomas E. and Linton, Marisa, eds. (2007) Conspiracy in the French Revolution. Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press. 222p. ISBN 9780719074028
Linton, M A (2001) The politics of virtue in Enlightenment France. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan. 258p. (Studies in Modern History) ISBN 0333949595
Book Section
Linton, Marisa (2011) Dissent and toleration. In: Doyle, William, (ed.) Handbook of the Ancien Regime. Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press. (Oxford Handbooks in History) ISBN 9780199291205
Linton, Marisa (2010) Jacobinism. In: Bevir, Mark, (ed.) Encyclopedia of Political Theory. Thousand Oaks, U.S.A. : Sage Publications. pp. 725-726. ISBN 9781412958653
Linton, Marisa (2009) Saint-Just, Louis Antoine (1767–1794). In: Ness, Immanuel, (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present. Oxford, U.K. : John Wiley. ISBN 9781405184649
Linton, Marisa (2007) 'Do you believe that we're conspirators?': conspiracies real and imagined in Jacobin politics, 1793-94. In: Campbell, Peter R , Kaiser, Thomas E and Linton, Marisa, (eds.) Conspiracy in the French Revolution. Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press. pp. 127-149. ISBN 9780719074028
Kaiser, Thomas E., Linton, Marisa and Campbell, Peter R. (2007) Introduction: conspiracy in the French Revolution - issues and debates. In: Campbell, Peter R. , Kaiser, Thomas E. and Linton, Marisa, (eds.) Conspiracy in the French Revolution. Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press. pp. 1-14. ISBN 9780719074028
Linton, Marisa (2005) Ideas of the future in the French Revolution. In: Crook, Malcolm , Doyle, William and Forrest, Alan, (eds.) Enlightenment and Revolution: essays in honour of Norman Hampson. Aldershot, UK : Ashgate Publishing Limited. pp. 153-168. ISBN 0754606821
Linton, Marisa (2005) The intellectual origins of the French Revolution. In: Campbell, Peter, (ed.) The origins of the French Revolution. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 139-159. (Problems in Focus) ISBN 0333949714
Linton, Marisa (2004) 'The Tartuffes of Patriotism': fears of conspiracy in the political language of Revolutionary government, France 1793-1794. In: Coward, Barry and Swann, Julian, (eds.) Conspiracies and conspiracy theory in early modern Europe: from the Waldensians to the French Revolution. Aldershot, UK : Ashgate Publishing Limited. pp. 235-254. ISBN 0754635643
Linton, Marisa (2000) Citizenship and religious toleration in France. In: Grell, Ole Peter and Porter, Roy, (eds.) Toleration in Enlightenment Europe. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press. pp. 157-174. ISBN 9780521651967
Linton, Marisa (1999) Robespierre's political principles. In: Haydon, Colin and Doyle, William, (eds.) Robespierre. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press. pp. 37-53. ISBN 0521591163
Conference or Workshop Item
Linton, Marisa (2010) Constructing a political identity in the French Revolution: the case of L.A. Saint-Just. In: History Research Seminar; 10 Feb 2010, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Submitted)
Linton, Marisa (2010) Plots, assassinations, and duplicity: the mental world of Jacobin Leaders, 1793-1794. In: The French Revolution in 2010: the Bicentenary comes of age?; 5-6 July 2010, Portsmouth, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Linton, Marisa (2010) The stuff of nightmares. Plots, assassinations and duplicity: the mental world of Jacobin Leaders, 1793-1794. In: 56th annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies; 8-10 Apr 2010, Tempe, Arizona, USA. (Submitted)
Linton, Marisa (2009) L'Antiquité, l'amitié et la nature dans la pensée de Saint-Just. In: Images de l'antiquité dans la Révolution française; 19 Jun 2009, Versailles, France. (Submitted)
Linton, Marisa (2008) Between virtue and corruption: Revolutionary politics, 1793-1794. In: 54th annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies; 3-5 Apr 2010, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. (Unpublished)
Linton, Marisa (2008) The role of antiquity in the political trajectory of L.A. Saint-Just. In: 22nd Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of French History; 3-4 Jul 2008, Aberystwyth, Wales. (Unpublished)
Linton, Marisa (2007) Virtue and the French Revolution. In: Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; 22-25 Mar 2007, Atlanta, USA. (Unpublished)
Linton, Marisa (2007) The role of antiquity in the political trajectory of L.A. Saint-Just. In: Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History; 07-10 Nov 2007, Albuquerque, U.S.. (Unpublished)
Linton, Marisa (2006) Fatal friendships: political conflicts within revolutionary ideology, 1793-1794. In: Society for French historical studies 52nd Annual Meeting; 20-22 April 2006, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.. (Unpublished)
Linton, Marisa (2006) Private friendships and public power: tensions within revolutionary politics, 1793-1794. In: Power in France, 1500 - 2000: Twentieth Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of French History; 03-04 Jul 2006, Brighton, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Linton, Marisa (2001) Fears of conspiracy and the politics of revolutionary government in France, 1793-94. In: Conspiracies and conspiracy theory in early modern Britain and Europe; 13-14 Jul 2001, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Moving Image/Broadcast
Linton, Marisa [Interviewee] (2012) Versailles the palace of pleasure. (Television Broadcast).
Linton, Marisa [Interviewee] and Hayhurst, Mark [Producer] (2009) Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution. (Television Broadcast).
Database or Web Resource
Linton, Marisa (2004) The Terror in the French Revolution. Portsmouth, U.K.
