Charles Walton
Assistant Professor
(Leave of absence, Academic Year 2009-10)
Office: HGS 300-F
Phone: (203) 432-1396
Email: charles.walton@yale.edu
Links: Recent Publications
Charles Walton received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. His research focuses on eighteenth-century French political culture, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. His book, Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution, deals with the problems of free speech, honor, political violence, and the policing of public opinion in late eighteenth-century France. He is currently editing a collection of essays on print culture and the Enlightenment. He is a fellow of Timothy Dwight College.
Publications
Books
- Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: the Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)
Articles
- “De la liberté de la presse et de la responsabilité des écrivains: perspectives des philosophes pendant les Lumières,” Les intellectuels dans la cité: identités, sociabilités et fonctions intellectuelles, de l’Antiquité à nos jours (Rouen: Presses universitaires de Rouen, forthcoming)
- “La liberté de la presse dans les cahiers de doléances de 1789,” Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (jan-mars, 2006)
- “Charles IX and the French Revolution: Law, Vengeance, and the Revolutionary Uses of History,” European Review of History/Revue européenne d’histoire, 4: 2 (1997)
Book reviews
- The Terror: the Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France, by David Andress, Journal of Modern History, (December, 2007)
- La Liberté ou la mort: essai sur la Terreur et le terrorisme, by Sophie Wahnich, H-France, August 2004 (extended review essay)
- Le Théâtre de la Foire: des tréteaux aux Boulevards, by Isabelle Martin, H-France, December 2003
Courses Taught
- Old Regime France
- The French Revolution
- Europe 1500-1815
- Terror in France (1560-1968)
- The Enlightenment
- The History of Free Speech (Britain, France, U.S.)
- Human Rights in France
- Gifts, Reciprocity, and Exchange in Early Modern France, 16th-18th centuries
