I can't offer anything reactionary, but I can offer a fascinating work of history from below. Laura Mason's Singing The Revolution: Popular Culture and Politics, 1787-1799 looks into the way in which the chanssonnier, street performers who used to sing popular and folk songs all over France, started using revolutionary and enlightenment-adjacent ideals in their songs as a way to spread anti monarchist sentiments among the French people. It also analyzes how popular music in general evolved in XVIII century France with a deep nationalistic impulse as a way to oppose the more foreign forms of "high" culture that Marie Antoinette was trying to bring forth as the new norm. Following a similar approach, there's C.A. McKinley's article Anarchists and the Music of the French Revolution, and for a more gender-oriented approach, R.D. Geoffroy-Schwinden's article A Lady-in-Waiting's Account of Marie Antoinette's Musical Politics: Women, Music and the French Revolution.

I appreciate that you are looking for something more recent than Thomas Carlyle, but if you’re after a reactionary / very critical Edmund Burke’s Reflections (1790) is a good place to start. If you fancy a giggle, Nesta Webster‘s The French Revolution: A Study in Democracy (1919) is critical but obsessed by a freemason conspiracy.
In regard to more recent literature, the pro-revolutionary accounts (by Marxist historians and what not) written mostly after WW2 to 1980s have been pushed aside by a revisionist school whom are not politically aligned nor interested in normative interpretations (revolution good or bad), but rather the scholars try to understand the revolution without ideological blinkers or tramlines.
When I was an undergraduate William Doyle was the go-to historian on the French Revolution, but another good historian of the revisionist sect is Alfred Cobban’s such as his seminal 1950s work the ‘Myth of the French Revolution‘ and his 1963 ‘The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution’.
Simon Schama‘s Citizens (1989) is okay, but written for a popular rather than academic audience and don’t forget Schama is first and foremost an Art Historian.
I’ve heard some good things about Timothy Tackett, but I have never read his stuff. My undergrad studies were between 2002-05, before Tackett’s works appeared. My MA and PhD was on British history and so I did not keep up on the newer French Revolution works.
sources: The memory of a PhD historian (Manchester, 2016) and a little university teaching on European history 1789-1914.